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3 ===============
4 Ext3 Filesystem
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7 Ext3 was originally released in September 1999. Written by Stephen Tweedie
8 for the 2.2 branch, and ported to 2.4 kernels by Peter Braam, Andreas Dilger,
9 Andrew Morton, Alexander Viro, Ted Ts'o and Stephen Tweedie.
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11 Ext3 is the ext2 filesystem enhanced with journalling capabilities. The
12 filesystem is a subset of ext4 filesystem so use ext4 driver for accessing
13 ext3 filesystems.
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