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> at FAT.
>
>> possibly untrue in Win NT,
>
> From what I've read, it's a journalling filesytem  based on a

i mean FAT partition under NT.

> I see that ext4 the successor to ext3, and which also has extent
> support, has a defragmenter. And it appears to give significant
> increases in read speeds.

still it's something wrong if it needs the defragmenter at all...
UFS do not.