Filesystem Comparison A File-System comparison via the Phoronix Test Suite. EXT4: Processor: Intel Core i5-2500K @ 3.30GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Parallels Software Virtual, Chipset: Red Hat Virtio + ICH8/R, Memory: 1 x 4096 MB DRAM-667MHz, Disk: 69GB Linux Testgel nd, Graphics: Parallels using NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT, Audio: Intel 82801BA/BAM, Network: Red Hat Virtio device OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 3.13.0-40-generic (x86_64), Desktop: LXDE 0.6.1, Display Server: X Server 1.15.1, Display Driver: NVIDIA 2.8.2, OpenGL: 2.1, Compiler: GCC 4.8.2, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1024x703, System Layer: Parallels Virtualization BTRFS: Processor: Intel Core i5-2500K @ 3.30GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Parallels Software Virtual, Chipset: Red Hat Virtio + ICH8/R, Memory: 1 x 4096 MB DRAM-667MHz, Disk: 69GB Linux Testgel nd, Graphics: Parallels using NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT, Audio: Intel 82801BA/BAM, Network: Red Hat Virtio device OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 3.13.0-40-generic (x86_64), Desktop: LXDE 0.6.1, Display Server: X Server 1.15.1, Display Driver: NVIDIA 2.8.2, OpenGL: 2.1, Compiler: GCC 4.8.2, File-System: btrfs, Screen Resolution: 1024x703, System Layer: Parallels Virtualization BTRFS compression:LZO: Processor: Intel Core i5-2500K @ 3.30GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Parallels Software Virtual, Chipset: Red Hat Virtio + ICH8/R, Memory: 1 x 4096 MB DRAM-667MHz, Disk: 69GB Linux Testgel nd, Graphics: Parallels using NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT, Audio: Intel 82801BA/BAM, Network: Red Hat Virtio device OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 3.13.0-40-generic (x86_64), Desktop: LXDE 0.6.1, Display Server: X Server 1.15.1, Display Driver: NVIDIA 2.8.2, OpenGL: 2.1, Compiler: GCC 4.8.2, File-System: btrfs, Screen Resolution: 1024x703, System Layer: Parallels Virtualization BTRFS compression:ZLIB: Processor: Intel Core i5-2500K @ 3.30GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Parallels Software Virtual, Chipset: Red Hat Virtio + ICH8/R, Memory: 1 x 4096 MB DRAM-667MHz, Disk: 69GB Linux Testgel nd, Graphics: Parallels using NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT, Audio: Intel 82801BA/BAM, Network: Red Hat Virtio device OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 3.13.0-40-generic (x86_64), Desktop: LXDE 0.6.1, Display Server: X Server 1.15.1, Display Driver: NVIDIA 2.8.2, OpenGL: 2.1, Compiler: GCC 4.8.2, File-System: btrfs, Screen Resolution: 1024x703, System Layer: Parallels Virtualization AIO-Stress 0.21 Random Write MB/s > Higher Is Better EXT4 ................... 867.76 |============================================== BTRFS .................. 842.74 |============================================= BTRFS compression:LZO .. 712.22 |====================================== BTRFS compression:ZLIB . 583.93 |=============================== SQLite 3.7.3 12,500 INSERTs Seconds < Lower Is Better EXT4 ................... 25.61 |============================ BTRFS .................. 39.07 |========================================== BTRFS compression:LZO .. 42.12 |============================================== BTRFS compression:ZLIB . 43.43 |=============================================== FS-Mark 3.3 1000 Files, 1MB Size Files/s > Higher Is Better EXT4 ................... 512.57 |============================================== BTRFS .................. 413.95 |===================================== BTRFS compression:LZO .. 515.33 |============================================== BTRFS compression:ZLIB . 198.53 |================== IOzone 3.405 8GB Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better EXT4 ................... 1500.40 |============================================= BTRFS .................. 1468.25 |============================================ BTRFS compression:LZO .. 1077.47 |================================ BTRFS compression:ZLIB . 478.18 |============== IOzone 3.405 8GB Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better EXT4 ................... 410.97 |============ BTRFS .................. 437.01 |============= BTRFS compression:LZO .. 1492.24 |============================================= BTRFS compression:ZLIB . 619.45 |=================== Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 64MB Random Read - 32 Threads MB/s > Higher Is Better EXT4 ................... 6966.51 |=============================== BTRFS .................. 8031.70 |==================================== BTRFS compression:LZO .. 9990.18 |============================================= BTRFS compression:ZLIB . 9165.67 |========================================= Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 64MB Random Write - 32 Threads MB/s > Higher Is Better EXT4 ................... 31.90 |=============================================== BTRFS .................. 18.13 |=========================== BTRFS compression:LZO .. 22.64 |================================= BTRFS compression:ZLIB . 24.27 |==================================== Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Compile MB/s > Higher Is Better EXT4 ................... 461.43 |================= BTRFS .................. 479.11 |================== BTRFS compression:LZO .. 1228.85 |============================================= BTRFS compression:ZLIB . 413.15 |=============== Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Initial Create MB/s > Higher Is Better EXT4 ................... 158.59 |============================================== BTRFS .................. 139.95 |========================================= BTRFS compression:LZO .. 111.61 |================================ BTRFS compression:ZLIB . 90.97 |========================== Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Read Compiled Tree MB/s > Higher Is Better EXT4 ................... 637.06 |==================================== BTRFS .................. 792.35 |============================================= BTRFS compression:LZO .. 811.74 |============================================== BTRFS compression:ZLIB . 804.63 |============================================== Unpacking The Linux Kernel linux-2.6.32.tar.bz2 Seconds < Lower Is Better EXT4 ................... 13.37 |=================================== BTRFS .................. 11.55 |============================== BTRFS compression:LZO .. 13.14 |================================== BTRFS compression:ZLIB . 18.12 |=============================================== PostMark 1.51 Disk Transaction Performance TPS > Higher Is Better EXT4 ................... 1530 |================= BTRFS .................. 635 |======= BTRFS compression:LZO .. 841 |========= BTRFS compression:ZLIB . 4386 |================================================ Gzip Compression 2GB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better EXT4 ................... 15.70 |=============================================== BTRFS .................. 15.51 |============================================== BTRFS compression:LZO .. 15.27 |============================================== BTRFS compression:ZLIB . 15.62 |=============================================== Apache Benchmark 2.4.7 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better EXT4 ................... 14203.45 |============================= BTRFS .................. 20907.77 |=========================================== BTRFS compression:LZO .. 21395.52 |============================================ BTRFS compression:ZLIB . 20793.03 |===========================================