> Are you sure about that?  I've seen some really heavily fragmented NTFS
> filesystems.
Sure, fragmentation does occur, just like in any other filesystem.
> Or are you saying that fragmentation doesn't  affect
> NTFS's performance?
Yup.  You can of course build an artificial worst-case test that will
cause serious performance penalties.  But that is irrelevant to
normal use.
        Stefan