What if Vista defrags the OS X volume?

The setup: I run Windows Live OneCare on Vista SP1 (in Boot Camp, of course). I also use MacDrive to have full access to the OS X partition. OneCare defrags the system once a week.
That's a good thing, except it reports that is has been defragmenting both the Windows and the Mac partition.
I updated to SP1 purely because it claims the built-in Windows defragmenter has the ability to exclude volumes from defragmentation. It does--though naturally, it doesn't recognize that I have two partitions. It still defrags both.
The question is, anyone with some advanced knowledge of file systems have any idea if this a problem? It hasn't caused any noticable issues yet, but it strikes me as a bad thing.
Thanks all,

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    I was thinking the same thing. With the amount of time it took to defrag, the poster could probably have simply removed everything from the iPod and resynced it back on in less time. And without the worry that some third part program might have put the directory in a state the iPod would have trouble with.
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