Linux 4.4 XFS Btrfs EXT4 F2FS Filesystems Linux 4.4 file-system benchmarks by Michael Larabel. Btrfs: Processor: Intel Core i7-5960X @ 3.50GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte X99-UD4-CF, Chipset: Intel Xeon E7 v3/Xeon, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 120GB Samsung SSD 850 + 240GB OCZ VERTEX3, Graphics: MSI AMD Radeon R7 370 / R9 270/370 OEM 4096MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: DELL P2415Q, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 15.10, Kernel: 4.4.0-rc2-phoronix (x86_64) 20151123, Desktop: Unity, Display Server: X Server 1.17.2, Display Driver: radeon 7.6.99, OpenGL: 4.1 Mesa 11.1.0-devel (padoka PPA) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.2.1 20151010, File-System: btrfs, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 EXT4: Processor: Intel Core i7-5960X @ 3.50GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte X99-UD4-CF, Chipset: Intel Xeon E7 v3/Xeon, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 120GB Samsung SSD 850 + 240GB OCZ VERTEX3, Graphics: MSI AMD Radeon R7 370 / R9 270/370 OEM 4096MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: DELL P2415Q, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 15.10, Kernel: 4.4.0-rc2-phoronix (x86_64) 20151123, Desktop: Unity, Display Server: X Server 1.17.2, Display Driver: radeon 7.6.99, OpenGL: 4.1 Mesa 11.1.0-devel (padoka PPA) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.2.1 20151010, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 XFS: Processor: Intel Core i7-5960X @ 3.50GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte X99-UD4-CF, Chipset: Intel Xeon E7 v3/Xeon, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 120GB Samsung SSD 850 + 240GB OCZ VERTEX3, Graphics: MSI AMD Radeon R7 370 / R9 270/370 OEM 4096MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: DELL P2415Q, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 15.10, Kernel: 4.4.0-rc2-phoronix (x86_64) 20151123, Desktop: Unity, Display Server: X Server 1.17.2, Display Driver: radeon 7.6.99, OpenGL: 4.1 Mesa 11.1.0-devel (padoka PPA) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.2.1 20151010, File-System: xfs, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 F2FS: Processor: Intel Core i7-5960X @ 3.50GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte X99-UD4-CF, Chipset: Intel Xeon E7 v3/Xeon, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 120GB Samsung SSD 850 + 240GB OCZ VERTEX3, Graphics: MSI AMD Radeon R7 370 / R9 270/370 OEM 4096MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: DELL P2415Q, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 15.10, Kernel: 4.4.0-rc2-phoronix (x86_64) 20151123, Desktop: Unity, Display Server: X Server 1.17.2, Display Driver: radeon 7.6.99, OpenGL: 4.1 Mesa 11.1.0-devel (padoka PPA) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.2.1 20151010, File-System: f2fs, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 SQLite 3.8.10.2 Test Target: Default Test Directory Seconds < Lower Is Better Btrfs . 92.30 |================================================================ EXT4 .. 28.65 |==================== XFS ... 28.36 |==================== F2FS .. 32.18 |====================== Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13 Type: Random Write - IO Engine: POSIX AIO - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory - Result: MB/s MB/s > Higher Is Better Btrfs . 79.76 |============================================ EXT4 .. 102.70 |========================================================= XFS ... 114.26 |=============================================================== F2FS .. 107.48 |=========================================================== Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13 Type: Sequential Write - IO Engine: POSIX AIO - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory - Result: MB/s MB/s > Higher Is Better Btrfs . 81.04 |============================================ EXT4 .. 109.31 |============================================================ XFS ... 115.35 |=============================================================== F2FS .. 109.78 |============================================================ FS-Mark 3.3 Test: 1000 Files, 1MB Size Files/s > Higher Is Better Btrfs . 103.52 |=================================== EXT4 .. 106.40 |==================================== XFS ... 187.00 |=============================================================== F2FS .. 134.10 |============================================= FS-Mark 3.3 Test: 5000 Files, 1MB Size, 4 Threads Files/s > Higher Is Better Btrfs . 102.00 |===================================================== EXT4 .. 111.60 |========================================================== XFS ... 103.07 |====================================================== F2FS .. 121.20 |=============================================================== FS-Mark 3.3 Test: 4000 Files, 32 Sub Dirs, 1MB Size Files/s > Higher Is Better Btrfs . 69.72 |=================================================== EXT4 .. 70.07 |=================================================== XFS ... 76.03 |======================================================== F2FS .. 87.30 |================================================================ Dbench 4.0 Client Count: 6 MB/s > Higher Is Better Btrfs . 207.96 |======================== EXT4 .. 373.48 |=========================================== XFS ... 547.70 |=============================================================== F2FS .. 156.07 |================== IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 4Kb - File Size: 8GB - Disk Test: Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better Btrfs . 6868.51 |============================================================== EXT4 .. 6801.06 |============================================================= XFS ... 6275.88 |========================================================= F2FS .. 6820.45 |============================================================== IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 4Kb - File Size: 8GB - Disk Test: Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better Btrfs . 183.41 |============================================================ EXT4 .. 153.87 |================================================== XFS ... 191.97 |=============================================================== F2FS .. 138.94 |============================================== Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Initial Create MB/s > Higher Is Better Btrfs . 144.36 |========================= EXT4 .. 331.56 |========================================================= XFS ... 229.20 |======================================= F2FS .. 367.60 |=============================================================== PostMark 1.51 Disk Transaction Performance TPS > Higher Is Better Btrfs . 5859 |========================================================= EXT4 .. 6199 |============================================================ XFS ... 6466 |=============================================================== F2FS .. 6697 |================================================================= PostgreSQL pgbench 9.4.3 Scaling: On-Disk - Test: Normal Load - Mode: Read Write TPS > Higher Is Better Btrfs . 1658.91 |============================================= EXT4 .. 2283.85 |============================================================== XFS ... 1725.09 |=============================================== F2FS .. 2230.66 |=============================================================