I use Windows VM on a number of Linux notebooks and have wondered if these need or benefit from the typical need to defragment NTFS drives on the host OS. The Linux host is usually Ext4 and this doesn't need fragmenting as far as I know but the Windows VM will use NTFS as a format. Does this need fragmenting or does the host Linux EXt4 format already take care of that?
Also I wonder why Microsoft doesn't use their ExFat format on any of Vista. windows 7, 8, 8.1 and certainly not even on the prematurely released and problematic w10 (as I found the hard way and ditched for Linux;)) Obviously a copy cat version responding to Linux' Ext3/4, but does Microsoft not trust their ExFat format sufficiently to make use of it as standard?
Also I wonder why Microsoft doesn't use their ExFat format on any of Vista. windows 7, 8, 8.1 and certainly not even on the prematurely released and problematic w10 (as I found the hard way and ditched for Linux;)) Obviously a copy cat version responding to Linux' Ext3/4, but does Microsoft not trust their ExFat format sufficiently to make use of it as standard?