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4Ext3 Filesystem
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7Ext3 was originally released in September 1999. Written by Stephen Tweedie
8for the 2.2 branch, and ported to 2.4 kernels by Peter Braam, Andreas Dilger,
9Andrew Morton, Alexander Viro, Ted Ts'o and Stephen Tweedie.
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11Ext3 is the ext2 filesystem enhanced with journalling capabilities. The
12filesystem is a subset of ext4 filesystem so use ext4 driver for accessing
13ext3 filesystems.
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