Linux 3.3 Kernel with Btrfs vs. EXT4 Btrfs and EXT4 file-system testing from a Linux 3.3 kernel and 7 February 2012 snapshot of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. Linux file-system benchmarking for a future article on Phoronix.com. ,,"Core i3 330M: EXT4","Core i3 330M: Btrfs" Processor,,Intel Core i3 330M @ 2.13GHz (4 Cores),Intel Core i3 330M @ 2.13GHz (4 Cores) Motherboard,,ASRock HM55-HT,ASRock HM55-HT Chipset,,Intel Core DRAM,Intel Core DRAM Memory,,4096MB,4096MB Disk,,500GB Seagate ST9500325AS,500GB Seagate ST9500325AS Graphics,,Intel Core IGP,Intel Core IGP Audio,,VIA VT2020,VIA VT2020 Monitor,,Acer P243W,Acer P243W Network,,Realtek RTL8111/8168B + Atheros AR9287 Wireless,Realtek RTL8111/8168B + Atheros AR9287 Wireless OS,,Ubuntu 12.04,Ubuntu 12.04 Kernel,,3.3.0-999-generic (x86_64),3.3.0-999-generic (x86_64) Desktop,,Unity 5.2.0,Unity 5.2.0 Display Server,,X Server 1.11.3,X Server 1.11.3 Display Driver,,intel 2.17.0,intel 2.17.0 OpenGL,,2.1 Mesa 8.0-rc2,2.1 Mesa 8.0-rc2 Compiler,,GCC 4.6,GCC 4.6 File-System,,ext4,btrfs Screen Resolution,,1920x1200,1920x1200 ,,"Core i3 330M: EXT4","Core i3 330M: Btrfs" "PostMark - Disk Transaction Performance (TPS)",HIB,1547,1051 "NGINX Benchmark - Static Web Page Serving (Reqs/sec)",HIB,15246.46,14070.10 "FS-Mark - Test: 1000 Files, 1MB Size (Files/s)",HIB,13.42,14.00 "FS-Mark - Test: 1000 Files, 1MB Size, No Sync/FSync (Files/s)",HIB,94.03,86.33 "FS-Mark - Test: 5000 Files, 1MB Size, 4 Threads (Files/s)",HIB,31.53,20.40 "FS-Mark - Test: 4000 Files, 32 Sub Dirs, 1MB Size (Files/s)",HIB,18.63,13.87 "IOzone - Record Size: 4Kb - File Size: 8GB - Disk Test: Write Performance (MB/s)",HIB,70.79,63.14 "IOzone - Record Size: 4Kb - File Size: 8GB - Disk Test: Read Performance (MB/s)",HIB,69.94,61.14 "Compile Bench - Test: Initial Create (MB/s)",HIB,53.62,47.87 "Compile Bench - Test: Compile (MB/s)",HIB,47.83,57.69 "Compile Bench - Test: Read Compiled Tree (MB/s)",HIB,63.58,47.20