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		ajross on July 23, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: rm -r fs/ext3 The Extended File System is not a hypothesis, it was a real filesystem. But it was replaced by ext2 (from the same author) very early, and by the time the distributions we know today were being put together it had already become the default choice. I don't know when exactly ext was removed from the kernel tree.

muizelaar on July 23, 2015 | [–]

Linux 2.1.21

eru on July 24, 2015 | [–]

Yes. I meant, we already have that situation cbhl described with there being no ext in the source tree, but ext2, ext3 and ext4.

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