The ext3 version number hasn't been updated since ext3 was merged. We track it via the kernel release ID. Remove it. fs/ext3/super.c | 14 ++++++-------- include/linux/ext3_fs.h | 6 ------ 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-) diff -puN fs/ext3/super.c~ext3-remove-version fs/ext3/super.c --- 25/fs/ext3/super.c~ext3-remove-version 2003-06-27 16:30:55.000000000 -0700 +++ 25-akpm/fs/ext3/super.c 2003-06-27 16:33:20.000000000 -0700 @@ -864,19 +864,17 @@ static int ext3_setup_super(struct super ext3_update_dynamic_rev(sb); EXT3_SET_INCOMPAT_FEATURE(sb, EXT3_FEATURE_INCOMPAT_RECOVER); - ext3_commit_super (sb, es, 1); - if (test_opt (sb, DEBUG)) - printk (KERN_INFO - "[EXT3 FS %s, %s, bs=%lu, gc=%lu, " - "bpg=%lu, ipg=%lu, mo=%04lx]\n", - EXT3FS_VERSION, EXT3FS_DATE, sb->s_blocksize, + ext3_commit_super(sb, es, 1); + if (test_opt(sb, DEBUG)) + printk(KERN_INFO "[EXT3 FS bs=%lu, gc=%lu, " + "bpg=%lu, ipg=%lu, mo=%04lx]\n", + sb->s_blocksize, sbi->s_groups_count, EXT3_BLOCKS_PER_GROUP(sb), EXT3_INODES_PER_GROUP(sb), sbi->s_mount_opt); - printk(KERN_INFO "EXT3 FS " EXT3FS_VERSION ", " EXT3FS_DATE " on %s, ", - sb->s_id); + printk(KERN_INFO "EXT3 FS on %s, ", sb->s_id); if (EXT3_SB(sb)->s_journal->j_inode == NULL) { char b[BDEVNAME_SIZE]; diff -puN include/linux/ext3_fs.h~ext3-remove-version include/linux/ext3_fs.h --- 25/include/linux/ext3_fs.h~ext3-remove-version 2003-06-27 16:32:31.000000000 -0700 +++ 25-akpm/include/linux/ext3_fs.h 2003-06-27 16:32:36.000000000 -0700 @@ -39,12 +39,6 @@ struct statfs; #define EXT3_DEFAULT_PREALLOC_BLOCKS 8 /* - * The second extended file system version - */ -#define EXT3FS_DATE "02 Dec 2001" -#define EXT3FS_VERSION "2.4-0.9.16" - -/* * Always enable hashed directories */ #define CONFIG_EXT3_INDEX _