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+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
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+===============
+Ext3 Filesystem
+===============
+
+Ext3 was originally released in September 1999. Written by Stephen Tweedie
+for the 2.2 branch, and ported to 2.4 kernels by Peter Braam, Andreas Dilger,
+Andrew Morton, Alexander Viro, Ted Ts'o and Stephen Tweedie.
+
+Ext3 is the ext2 filesystem enhanced with journalling capabilities. The
+filesystem is a subset of ext4 filesystem so use ext4 driver for accessing
+ext3 filesystems.
+