[plug] non-contiguous inodes in ext3 - a problem? avoidable?

[Daniel]

Hi,
I should have added the following-
any hints on how to avoid this would be much appreciated:

drwxr-xr-x    0 me   me        32k Dec  6  1969 ?{???x.v
-rwxr-xr-x    1 me   me       1.0M Jan 17  1991 ???.???
drwxr-xr-x    0 me   me        32k Oct  5  1967 ?"??<l?i.^x?

thanks,
Daniel.