ZFS Linux Benchmarking Ubuntu 12.04

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.

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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: LLNL ZFS 0.6.0-rc9",313.18,536.77,399.86,536.88,196.35,258.32 "HDD: EXT4",747.61,747.53,765.9 "HDD: Btrfs",734.13,751.29,733.03 "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: LLNL ZFS 0.6.0-rc9",112.63,54.15,49.74,50.92,49.86,64.06 "HDD: EXT4",84.76,99.97,102.27,102.16 "HDD: Btrfs",88.1,116.43,127.9 "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: LLNL ZFS 0.6.0-rc9",83.68,42.33,41.86,43.57,41.87,42.69 "HDD: EXT4",66.32,63.06,67.84,64.68 "HDD: Btrfs",100.34,105.31,99.28 "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: LLNL ZFS 0.6.0-rc9",4.493,2.504,23.611,3.086,2.472,2.425,2.421,3.082 "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 "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: LLNL ZFS 0.6.0-rc9",63.7197265625,64.1796875,66.7421875 "HDD: EXT4",62.8740234375,60.5810546875,60.478515625 "HDD: Btrfs",72.9013671875,73.10546875,72.5830078125 "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: LLNL ZFS 0.6.0-rc9",75.1171875,74.66015625,76.556640625 "HDD: EXT4",108.2021484375,105.6884765625,105.70703125 "HDD: Btrfs",90.14453125,122.9453125,126.607421875,126.28125,126.787109375,126.8056640625 "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: LLNL ZFS 0.6.0-rc9",98.2403,101.798,103.877 "HDD: EXT4",15.9117,15.9199,15.8897 "HDD: Btrfs",10.589,10.5692,10.5359 "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: LLNL ZFS 0.6.0-rc9",289557,277058,297799,300808,287528 "HDD: EXT4",1976115,1958971,1898858 "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: LLNL ZFS 0.6.0-rc9",1784.3,59.9,57,63.5,81.3,75.2 "HDD: EXT4",150.6,161.9,160.9,140.5,153.1,152.4 "HDD: Btrfs",265.8,265.4,267.8 "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: LLNL ZFS 0.6.0-rc9",19.1,19,19.2 "HDD: EXT4",17.7,17.9,17.9 "HDD: Btrfs",14.8,14.9,14.8 "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: LLNL ZFS 0.6.0-rc9",20.4,20,19.6 "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 "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: LLNL ZFS 0.6.0-rc9",18.7,20.3,20.3,20.6,20.6,20.9 "HDD: EXT4",13.7,13.6,13.5 "HDD: Btrfs",15.8,15.6,15.6 "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