On Nov 30, 2007, at 9:45 AM, Stefan Monnier wrote:
No. The NTFS file system does not need defragmentation. The best explanation I've heard of why they have a defragmenter for it is that it was considered easier to write a defragmenter than to go about explaining that FAT32 just sucks.
Are you sure about that? I've seen some really heavily fragmented NTFS filesystems. Or are you saying that fragmentation doesn't affect NTFS's performance?
Microsoft didn't provide a defragmenter for NTFS until Windows 2000 -- on NT4 and earlier they suggested you buy a third-party utility.