ZFS, EXT4, Btrfs Linux file-system benchmarking under Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. Linux file-system testing for a future article on Phoronix.com by Michael Larabel.
Compare your own system(s) to this result file with the
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phoronix-test-suite benchmark 1206267-SU-ZFSLINUXB51
ZFS Linux Benchmarking Ubuntu 12.04,
"PostMark 1.51 - Disk Transaction Performance",
Higher Results Are Better
"SSD: LLNL ZFS 0.6.0-rc9",308,250,250,240,242,320,255,250,250,2083
"HDD: LLNL ZFS 0.6.0-rc9",304,378,252,260,257,301,316,268,277,277
"Compile Bench 0.6 - Test: Read Compiled Tree",
Higher Results Are Better
"SSD: LLNL ZFS 0.6.0-rc9",573.27,531.27,494.55,441.36,420.79,555.57
"SSD: EXT4",815.09,796.18,795.68
"SSD: Btrfs",799.35,783.21,800.94
"HDD: EXT4",747.61,747.53,765.9
"HDD: Btrfs",734.13,751.29,733.03
"HDD: LLNL ZFS 0.6.0-rc9",313.18,536.77,399.86,536.88,196.35,258.32
"Compile Bench 0.6 - Test: Initial Create",
Higher Results Are Better
"SSD: LLNL ZFS 0.6.0-rc9",108.34,83.2,91.98,88.86,91.08,77.77
"SSD: EXT4",122.41,143.36,140.68,134.34,125.94,122.56
"SSD: Btrfs",32.95,41.19,37.74,42.81,40.82,35.17
"HDD: EXT4",84.76,99.97,102.27,102.16
"HDD: Btrfs",88.1,116.43,127.9
"HDD: LLNL ZFS 0.6.0-rc9",112.63,54.15,49.74,50.92,49.86,64.06
"Compile Bench 0.6 - Test: Compile",
Higher Results Are Better
"SSD: LLNL ZFS 0.6.0-rc9",209.87,79.5,81.02,77.37,79.22,78.72
"SSD: EXT4",186.61,176.34,167.99,155.51,140.08,125.47
"SSD: Btrfs",90.37,101.56,108.54,105.09,131.19,105.94
"HDD: EXT4",66.32,63.06,67.84,64.68
"HDD: Btrfs",100.34,105.31,99.28
"HDD: LLNL ZFS 0.6.0-rc9",83.68,42.33,41.86,43.57,41.87,42.69
"Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 - Test: Random Write - Size Per Thread: 64MB - Thread Count: 16",
Higher Results Are Better
"SSD: LLNL ZFS 0.6.0-rc9",5.72,6.175,5.566,4.389,2.828,3.164,2.992,3.114
"SSD: EXT4",10.083,9.946,10.003,10.046
"SSD: Btrfs",62.475,55.402,77.094,59.474,58.121,54.44,71.047,62.149
"HDD: EXT4",1.907,1.996,2.02,1.974
"HDD: Btrfs",27.291,43.143,39.11,39.094,41.933,22.008,41.24,42.104
"HDD: LLNL ZFS 0.6.0-rc9",4.493,2.504,23.611,3.086,2.472,2.425,2.421,3.082
"IOzone 3.405 - Record Size: 1MB - File Size: 8GB - Disk Test: Write Performance",
Higher Results Are Better
"SSD: LLNL ZFS 0.6.0-rc9",97.74609375,100.115234375,86.255859375,84.7314453125,93.0830078125,87.59375
"SSD: EXT4",124.7841796875,125.234375,124.75
"SSD: Btrfs",58.9013671875,60.052734375,58.4658203125
"HDD: EXT4",62.8740234375,60.5810546875,60.478515625
"HDD: Btrfs",72.9013671875,73.10546875,72.5830078125
"HDD: LLNL ZFS 0.6.0-rc9",63.7197265625,64.1796875,66.7421875
"IOzone 3.405 - Record Size: 1MB - File Size: 8GB - Disk Test: Read Performance",
Higher Results Are Better
"SSD: LLNL ZFS 0.6.0-rc9",166.5166015625,186.87890625,197.2626953125,199.0556640625,200.1376953125,197.3486328125
"SSD: EXT4",339.2216796875,341.0283203125,342.9501953125
"SSD: Btrfs",205.828125,239.75390625,257.150390625,265.76953125,251.8759765625,255.3955078125
"HDD: EXT4",108.2021484375,105.6884765625,105.70703125
"HDD: Btrfs",90.14453125,122.9453125,126.607421875,126.28125,126.787109375,126.8056640625
"HDD: LLNL ZFS 0.6.0-rc9",75.1171875,74.66015625,76.556640625
"Dbench 4.0 - Client Count: 1",
Higher Results Are Better
"SSD: LLNL ZFS 0.6.0-rc9",200.838,201.079,202.79
"SSD: EXT4",45.9835,46.0272,46.1583
"SSD: Btrfs",35.561,35.872,36.0316
"HDD: EXT4",15.9117,15.9199,15.8897
"HDD: Btrfs",10.589,10.5692,10.5359
"HDD: LLNL ZFS 0.6.0-rc9",98.2403,101.798,103.877
"BlogBench 1.0 - Test: Read",
Higher Results Are Better
"SSD: LLNL ZFS 0.6.0-rc9",523740,184042,338313,293109,482629,411990
"SSD: EXT4",1273565,1039690,1081007,1056177,1113362,1137407
"SSD: Btrfs",1860542,1765060,1785493
"HDD: EXT4",1976115,1958971,1898858
"HDD: LLNL ZFS 0.6.0-rc9",289557,277058,297799,300808,287528
"FS-Mark 3.3 - Test: 1000 Files, 1MB Size, No Sync/FSync",
Higher Results Are Better
"SSD: LLNL ZFS 0.6.0-rc9",1830.3,51.1,42.7,70.7,61.1,74.5
"SSD: EXT4",368.1,329.1,324.9,332.1,331.3,331.3
"SSD: Btrfs",129.5,133.1,132.8
"HDD: EXT4",150.6,161.9,160.9,140.5,153.1,152.4
"HDD: Btrfs",265.8,265.4,267.8
"HDD: LLNL ZFS 0.6.0-rc9",1784.3,59.9,57,63.5,81.3,75.2
"FS-Mark 3.3 - Test: 4000 Files, 32 Sub Dirs, 1MB Size",
Higher Results Are Better
"SSD: LLNL ZFS 0.6.0-rc9",19.5,17.9,18.2,18.8,18.2
"SSD: EXT4",57.5,57.5,57.6
"SSD: Btrfs",27.1,23.1,22.2,22.3,21.3,23
"HDD: EXT4",17.7,17.9,17.9
"HDD: Btrfs",14.8,14.9,14.8
"HDD: LLNL ZFS 0.6.0-rc9",19.1,19,19.2
"FS-Mark 3.3 - Test: 5000 Files, 1MB Size, 4 Threads",
Higher Results Are Better
"SSD: LLNL ZFS 0.6.0-rc9",27.9,18,17.2,16.8,16.8,16.8
"SSD: EXT4",101.2,87.2,57.2,95.6,95.2,92.4
"SSD: Btrfs",27.6,23.6,29.2,28.8,28.4,30.4
"HDD: EXT4",28.8,32.4,27.6,32.8,32.8,33.2
"HDD: Btrfs",19.2,17.2,17.2,16.8,16.8,16.8
"HDD: LLNL ZFS 0.6.0-rc9",20.4,20,19.6
"FS-Mark 3.3 - Test: 1000 Files, 1MB Size",
Higher Results Are Better
"SSD: LLNL ZFS 0.6.0-rc9",37.2,35.3,35.7
"SSD: EXT4",59.9,59.8,59.6
"SSD: Btrfs",27.7,28.7,30.9,27.1,28.8,21.3
"HDD: EXT4",13.7,13.6,13.5
"HDD: Btrfs",15.8,15.6,15.6
"HDD: LLNL ZFS 0.6.0-rc9",18.7,20.3,20.3,20.6,20.6,20.9
"Flexible IO Tester 1.57 - Test: Intel IOMeter File Server Access Pattern",
Lower Results Are Better
"SSD: LLNL ZFS 0.6.0-rc9",69.993088960648,71.173820018768,69.331704854965
"SSD: EXT4",300.79611802101,300.43627595901,299.93904399872
"SSD: Btrfs",559.51849293709,659.1557059288,687.43123793602,691.56719303131,730.15796899796,731.83879184723
"HDD: EXT4",5635.8122668266