fs ext4 ext4: Processor: AMD Athlon 64 3200+ @ 2.01GHz (1 Core), Motherboard: MSI MS-7125 v3.0, Chipset: AMD K8, Memory: 2048MB, Disk: 80GB Western Digital WDC WD800LB-07DN + 250GB Western Digital WDC WD2500JB-55E, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 OS: Ubuntu 10.10, Kernel: 2.6.35-25-generic (i686), Display Driver: NVIDIA 1.0.0, Compiler: GCC 4.4.5, File-System: ext4 ext4_dmcrypt: Processor: AMD Athlon 64 3200+ @ 2.01GHz (1 Core), Motherboard: MSI MS-7125 v3.0, Chipset: AMD K8, Memory: 2048MB, Disk: 80GB Western Digital WDC WD800LB-07DN + 250GB Western Digital WDC WD2500JB-55E, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 OS: Ubuntu 10.10, Kernel: 2.6.35-25-generic (i686), Display Driver: NVIDIA 1.0.0, Compiler: GCC 4.4.5, File-System: ext4 btrfs: Processor: AMD Athlon 64 3200+ @ 2.01GHz (1 Core), Motherboard: MSI MS-7125 v3.0, Chipset: AMD K8, Memory: 2048MB, Disk: 80GB Western Digital WDC WD800LB-07DN + 250GB Western Digital WDC WD2500JB-55E, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 OS: Ubuntu 10.10, Kernel: 2.6.35-25-generic (i686), Display Driver: NVIDIA 1.0.0, Compiler: GCC 4.4.5, File-System: ext4 btrfs_dmcrypt: Processor: AMD Athlon 64 3200+ @ 2.01GHz (1 Core), Motherboard: MSI MS-7125 v3.0, Chipset: AMD K8, Memory: 2048MB, Disk: 80GB Western Digital WDC WD800LB-07DN + 250GB Western Digital WDC WD2500JB-55E, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 OS: Ubuntu 10.10, Kernel: 2.6.35-25-generic (i686), Display Driver: NVIDIA 1.0.0, Compiler: GCC 4.4.5, File-System: ext4 ext3: Processor: AMD Athlon 64 3200+ @ 2.01GHz (1 Core), Motherboard: MSI MS-7125 v3.0, Chipset: AMD K8, Memory: 2048MB, Disk: 80GB Western Digital WDC WD800LB-07DN + 250GB Western Digital WDC WD2500JB-55E, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 OS: Ubuntu 10.10, Kernel: 2.6.35-28-generic (i686), Display Driver: NVIDIA 1.0.0, Compiler: GCC 4.4.5, File-System: ext2/ext3 Gzip Compression 2GB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better ext4 .......... 69.40 |================================================ ext4_dmcrypt .. 65.28 |============================================= btrfs ......... 71.91 |================================================== btrfs_dmcrypt . 71.60 |================================================== ext3 .......... 80.90 |======================================================== SQLite 3.7.3 12,500 INSERTs Seconds < Lower Is Better ext4 .......... 1058.59 |======================================== ext4_dmcrypt .. 1258.92 |================================================ btrfs ......... 1268.25 |================================================ btrfs_dmcrypt . 1423.84 |====================================================== ext3 .......... 217.04 |======== Apache Benchmark 2.2.17 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better ext4 .......... 4046.13 |====================================================== ext4_dmcrypt .. 4034.95 |====================================================== btrfs ......... 3516.47 |=============================================== btrfs_dmcrypt . 3690.93 |================================================= ext3 .......... 3967.82 |===================================================== PostgreSQL pgbench 9.0.1 TPC-B Transactions Per Second TPS > Higher Is Better ext4 .......... 112.87 |========= ext4_dmcrypt .. 113.22 |========= btrfs ......... 18.30 |= btrfs_dmcrypt . 16.39 |= ext3 .......... 687.94 |======================================================= Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Initial Create MB/s > Higher Is Better ext4 .......... 32.62 |======================================================== ext4_dmcrypt .. 25.03 |=========================================== btrfs ......... 22.89 |======================================= btrfs_dmcrypt . 14.62 |========================= ext3 .......... 16.36 |============================ IOzone 3.347 8GB Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better ext4 .......... 48.48 |================================================= ext4_dmcrypt .. 41.44 |========================================== btrfs ......... 55.07 |======================================================== btrfs_dmcrypt . 30.04 |=============================== ext3 .......... 44.24 |============================================= IOzone 3.347 8GB Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better ext4 .......... 50.25 |===================================================== ext4_dmcrypt .. 53.25 |======================================================== btrfs ......... 28.94 |============================== btrfs_dmcrypt . 28.98 |============================== ext3 .......... 43.09 |============================================= Dbench 4.0 1 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better ext4 .......... 10.05 |============= ext4_dmcrypt .. 7.32 |========== btrfs ......... 10.00 |============= btrfs_dmcrypt . 8.78 |=========== ext3 .......... 42.76 |======================================================== Dbench 4.0 12 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better ext4 .......... 41.88 |======================================================== ext4_dmcrypt .. 34.39 |============================================== btrfs ......... 38.93 |==================================================== btrfs_dmcrypt . 32.58 |============================================ ext3 .......... 28.70 |====================================== Dbench 4.0 48 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better ext4 .......... 32.18 |==================================================== ext4_dmcrypt .. 29.11 |=============================================== btrfs ......... 34.81 |======================================================== btrfs_dmcrypt . 28.55 |============================================== ext3 .......... 15.79 |========================= Dbench 4.0 128 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better ext4 .......... 24.34 |=========================================== ext4_dmcrypt .. 23.33 |========================================= btrfs ......... 32.04 |======================================================== btrfs_dmcrypt . 28.33 |================================================== ext3 .......... 7.26 |============= FS-Mark 3.3 1000 Files, 1MB Size Files/s > Higher Is Better ext4 .......... 16.77 |=============================== ext4_dmcrypt .. 13.93 |========================== btrfs ......... 14.67 |=========================== btrfs_dmcrypt . 11.30 |===================== ext3 .......... 30.32 |======================================================== Flexible IO Tester 1.21 Intel IOMeter File Server Access Pattern Seconds (Run Time) < Lower Is Better ext4 .......... 93.36 |============================ ext4_dmcrypt .. 106.03 |================================ btrfs ......... 106.61 |================================ btrfs_dmcrypt . 182.39 |======================================================= ext3 .......... 98.60 |============================== Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 64MB Random Read - 32 Threads MB/s > Higher Is Better ext4 .......... 2.13 |============================ ext4_dmcrypt .. 2.43 |================================ btrfs ......... 3.70 |================================================ btrfs_dmcrypt . 4.35 |========================================================= ext3 .......... 3.87 |=================================================== Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 64MB Random Write - 32 Threads MB/s > Higher Is Better ext4 .......... 1.94 |=========== ext4_dmcrypt .. 2.03 |============ btrfs ......... 9.92 |========================================================= btrfs_dmcrypt . 8.83 |=================================================== ext3 .......... 1.84 |=========== PostMark 1.51 Disk Transaction Performance TPS > Higher Is Better ext4 .......... 203 |=========================================== ext4_dmcrypt .. 189 |======================================== btrfs ......... 272 |========================================================== btrfs_dmcrypt . 166 |=================================== ext3 .......... 87 |=================== AIO-Stress 0.21 Random Write MB/s > Higher Is Better ext4 .......... 14.65 |==================== ext4_dmcrypt .. 13.94 |=================== btrfs ......... 40.37 |======================================================== btrfs_dmcrypt . 29.18 |======================================== ext3 .......... 9.94 |============== Unpacking The Linux Kernel linux-2.6.32.tar.bz2 Seconds < Lower Is Better ext4 .......... 35.28 |==================================== ext4_dmcrypt .. 43.35 |============================================ btrfs ......... 46.16 |=============================================== btrfs_dmcrypt . 54.84 |======================================================== ext3 .......... 35.79 |=====================================