[Bug 270458] Re: Intrepid: e2fsck in rescue menue does not repair problems

2008-09-16 Thread Theodore Ts'o
Non-contiguous means that the data blocks are not stored contiguously on disk. Yes, that means fragmented. Keep in mind that a certain amount of fragmentation isn't going to hurt performance. If a file is badly fragmented, yes, that can hurt performance (at least until we all switch to solid

[Bug 270458] Re: Intrepid: e2fsck in rescue menue does not repair problems

2008-09-16 Thread oss_test_launchpad
Thank you very much for this comprehensive piece of information. Maybe one should change the message so that no one thinks this is an error message? -- Intrepid: e2fsck in rescue menue does not repair problems https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/270458 You received this bug notification because you

[Bug 270458] Re: Intrepid: e2fsck in rescue menue does not repair problems

2008-09-16 Thread Theodore Ts'o
I am at a loss to see how the message: /dev/thunk/testext4: 5452/65536 files (0.0% non-contiguous), 12692/262144 blocks could possibly be interpreted as an error message. It's been like this for over 15 years and no one has ever been confused about what it means until now. What would you