1*4882a593Smuzhiyun.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 2*4882a593Smuzhiyun 3*4882a593Smuzhiyun=============== 4*4882a593SmuzhiyunExt3 Filesystem 5*4882a593Smuzhiyun=============== 6*4882a593Smuzhiyun 7*4882a593SmuzhiyunExt3 was originally released in September 1999. Written by Stephen Tweedie 8*4882a593Smuzhiyunfor the 2.2 branch, and ported to 2.4 kernels by Peter Braam, Andreas Dilger, 9*4882a593SmuzhiyunAndrew Morton, Alexander Viro, Ted Ts'o and Stephen Tweedie. 10*4882a593Smuzhiyun 11*4882a593SmuzhiyunExt3 is the ext2 filesystem enhanced with journalling capabilities. The 12*4882a593Smuzhiyunfilesystem is a subset of ext4 filesystem so use ext4 driver for accessing 13*4882a593Smuzhiyunext3 filesystems. 14*4882a593Smuzhiyun 15