On RHEL 6.5 creating a EXT3 filesystem actually creates a EXT4 filesystem

Solution Unverified - Updated -

Issue

When we try either:-

mke2fs -t ext3 ...

or

mkfs.ext3 ...

to create a EXT3 filesystem on v6.5 we get a EXT4 filesystem.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

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