summaryrefslogtreecommitdiffstats
path: root/Documentation/filesystems/ext3.rst
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2026-09-20 08:15:23 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2026-09-20 08:15:23 -0700
commitbdab18633a302c82b5e5d5dbc4e38b0baf9c0837 (patch)
tree0446500af9a76d4e8b2a72a0a41391ceede73a10 /Documentation/filesystems/ext3.rst
downloadlinux-stable-bdab18633a302c82b5e5d5dbc4e38b0baf9c0837.tar.gz
linux-stable-bdab18633a302c82b5e5d5dbc4e38b0baf9c0837.zip
Merge tag 'locking-urgent-2026-09-20' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tipgrafted
Pull futex fix from Ingo Molnar: - Also allocate a default private futex hash on vfork() as well, to avoid races with (private) futex waiters (Peter Zijlstra) * tag 'locking-urgent-2026-09-20' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: futex: Also allocate private hash on vfork()
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems/ext3.rst')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/ext3.rst14
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ext3.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/ext3.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..c06cec3a8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/ext3.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+
+===============
+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.
+