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Not an opinion about ext3, but "I have many machines using it" does not mean a system is obsolete or not, for obvious reasons. Besides, with companies still running COBOL/FORTRAN software on decades old hardware, what is "obsolete"?

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In my opinion, obsolete software is software that is no longer maintained.

The current version of the "extended filesystem" is 4, not 3.

That doesn't mean ext3 is unmaintained.

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux%2Fkernel%2Fgit%2Ftorvalds%2Fl...

Exactly, and both JFS and XFS are still maintained as well. In fact, this is where all file systems should strive to get: stable releases with bug fixes only.

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