Reiser4 File-System Linux Benchmarks

Benchmarks of the Reiser4 file-system on the Linux 3.5.3 kernel with Reiser4 patch while running on Ubuntu 12.10 x86_64 Linux. Reiser4 file-system performance compared to EXT4, Btrfs, XFS, and ReiserFS file-systems. Benchmarked Reiser4 for future article on Phoronix.com by Michael Larabel

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October 09 2012
 
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October 08 2012
 
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Reiser4 File-System Linux Benchmarks, "PostMark 1.51 - Disk Transaction Performance", Higher Results Are Better "Btrfs",1562,1666,1562,1562,1666,1470,1666,1562,1562,1562 "ReiserFS",1388,1388,1315,1315,1470,1388,1388,1388,1315,1388 "Reiser4",1470,1562,1562,1562,1562 "Unpacking The Linux Kernel - linux-2.6.32.tar.bz2", Lower Results Are Better "EXT4",17.161852121353,15.225343942642,14.788456916809,15.3625831604,14.880666017532,15.38286781311,14.793405056,15.080131053925 "Btrfs",16.606533050537,16.304812908173,15.897207975388,16.057346105576 "XFS",15.968235969543,14.611001968384,14.671205997467,14.880129814148,14.854625940323,14.81231713295 "ReiserFS",16.016268968582,15.707690954208,15.239964962006,15.293090105057 "Reiser4",16.291254043579,14.626574039459,16.063007831573,14.529760122299,16.157973051071,16.050111055374,15.948786020279,14.441667079926 "Compile Bench 0.6 - Test: Initial Create", Higher Results Are Better "EXT4",91.39,99.11,96.09 "Btrfs",65.09,68.99,60.9 "XFS",83.23,82.71,89.08 "ReiserFS",70.43,69.17,68.69 "Reiser4",105.91,109.41,104.17 "Compile Bench 0.6 - Test: Compile", Higher Results Are Better "EXT4",103.67,105.39,105 "Btrfs",102.34,104.89,104.44 "XFS",99.21,101.23,102.83 "ReiserFS",106.05,103.45,104.43 "Reiser4",101.7,101.69,102.21 "Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 - Test: Random Write - Size Per Thread: 64MB - Thread Count: 8", Higher Results Are Better "EXT4",94.724,95.137,94.214,95.1 "Btrfs",84.867,72.324,81.373,86.861,81.846,79.62,87.945,92.703 "XFS",49.895,94.871,95.002,90.939,95.818,93.907,94.234,94.278 "ReiserFS",94.338,94.827,92.531,94.995 "Reiser4",32.672,30.306,32.384,33.219,32.122 "Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 - Test: Random Write - Size Per Thread: 64MB - Thread Count: 4", Higher Results Are Better "EXT4",95.805,96.507,96.118,88.516,95.755,80.231,94.194,95.734 "Btrfs",78.176,78.152,83.223,74.44,74.765,72.894,75.787,68.144 "XFS",95.193,91.92,96.321,92.773 "ReiserFS",94.401,94.545,96.059,93.55 "Reiser4",26.399,38.64,34.944,33.639,39.095,28.294,35.624,38.115 "Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 - Test: Random Write - Size Per Thread: 32MB - Thread Count: 8", Higher Results Are Better "EXT4",98.645,99.164,98.364,98.792 "Btrfs",91.486,86.532,92.199,90.062 "XFS",97.893,98.371,97.226,99.866 "ReiserFS",78.838,95.867,96.067,96.998,97.707,95.491,98.941,79.849 "Reiser4",36.344,34.483,33.661,32.907,29.719,34.391,35.326,31.972 "Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 - Test: Random Write - Size Per Thread: 32MB - Thread Count: 4", Higher Results Are Better "EXT4",100.599,98.202,100.868,96.739 "Btrfs",85.139,82.738,80.542,80.373 "XFS",27.333,98.021,97.548,98.648,97.749,98.796,97.287,99.659 "ReiserFS",88.845,96.643,98.343,98.125,96.301,97.975,97.619 "Reiser4",39.253,37.366,37.71,40.433,39.134 "IOzone 3.405 - Record Size: 64Kb - File Size: 8GB - Disk Test: Write Performance", Higher Results Are Better "EXT4",101.7763671875,101.9326171875,101.7509765625 "Btrfs",101.896484375,101.9853515625,102.0517578125 "XFS",104.37109375,103.31640625,103.7392578125 "ReiserFS",101.0517578125,101.1591796875,100.9609375 "Reiser4",100.7353515625,100.130859375,100.1533203125 "IOzone 3.405 - Record Size: 64Kb - File Size: 8GB - Disk Test: Read Performance", Higher Results Are Better "EXT4",234.630859375,233.8271484375,236.3876953125 "Btrfs",212.23046875,211.3125,212.4599609375 "XFS",183.8369140625,215.3642578125,218.548828125,222.8095703125,217.8681640625,217.212890625 "ReiserFS",208.328125,208.361328125,209.68359375 "Reiser4",237.146484375,233.484375,237.2978515625 "IOzone 3.405 - Record Size: 4Kb - File Size: 8GB - Disk Test: Write Performance", Higher Results Are Better "EXT4",101.51171875,101.7451171875,100.9697265625 "Btrfs",102.1337890625,100.810546875,102.1552734375 "XFS",103.6474609375,104.619140625,103.482421875 "ReiserFS",101.2431640625,100.70703125,100.8623046875 "Reiser4",99.109375,99.5009765625,99.359375 "IOzone 3.405 - Record Size: 1MB - File Size: 8GB - Disk Test: Write Performance", Higher Results Are Better "EXT4",101.1923828125,101.6220703125,101.3193359375 "Btrfs",101.587890625,101.9326171875,101.6416015625 "XFS",103.7080078125,103.8828125,104.00390625 "ReiserFS",100.92578125,100.9521484375,101.021484375 "Reiser4",99.837890625,100.302734375,100.5234375 "IOzone 3.405 - Record Size: 4Kb - File Size: 8GB - Disk Test: Read Performance", Higher Results Are Better "EXT4",236.09375,234.24609375,236.009765625 "Btrfs",211.279296875,210.78125,215.33203125 "XFS",217.421875,218.576171875,219.1826171875 "ReiserFS",211.486328125,208.1796875,208.19140625 "Reiser4",239.5947265625,239.94140625,239.173828125 "IOzone 3.405 - Record Size: 1MB - File Size: 8GB - Disk Test: Read Performance", Higher Results Are Better "EXT4",233.25,232.705078125,234.982421875 "Btrfs",204.783203125,204.0869140625,207.2275390625 "XFS",225.28125,219.654296875,219.63671875 "ReiserFS",209.1533203125,210.9990234375,210.4384765625 "Reiser4",224.8408203125,239.3515625,239.32421875,239.9228515625 "Dbench 4.0 - Client Count: 1", Higher Results Are Better "EXT4",247.853,248.355,238.034 "Btrfs",158.492,158.707,160.192 "XFS",185.325,185.094,181.692 "ReiserFS",111.042,111.276,111.416 "Reiser4",111.18,109.87,110.184 "FS-Mark 3.3 - Test: 4000 Files, 32 Sub Dirs, 1MB Size", Higher Results Are Better "EXT4",79.6,79.9,79.3 "Btrfs",70.3,70.7,70.9 "XFS",82.9,81.7,84.2 "ReiserFS",65.8,64.8,63.7 "Reiser4",74.4,74.9,74.5 "FS-Mark 3.3 - Test: 5000 Files, 1MB Size, 4 Threads", Higher Results Are Better "EXT4",98.4,98.4,94.4 "Btrfs",94.9,94.9,95.4 "XFS",95.6,94,94 "ReiserFS",79.6,79.2,79.2 "Reiser4",85.6,84.3,84.1 "FS-Mark 3.3 - Test: 1000 Files, 1MB Size", Higher Results Are Better "EXT4",83,80.3,80.1 "Btrfs",72.6,69.1,71.3 "XFS",85.7,83.1,85.7 "ReiserFS",63.8,62.3,65.2 "Reiser4",76.8,79.9,75.3 "Flexible IO Tester 1.57 - Test: Intel IOMeter File Server Access Pattern", Lower Results Are Better "EXT4",102.65333580971,102.97888088226,102.88290095329 "Btrfs",576.97283697128,599.57901287079,594.1431889534 "XFS",216.89226698875,215.68189406395,218.09774422646 "ReiserFS",144.37077283859,144.27678894997,145.74573802948 "Reiser4",82.038437843323,82.999701976776,83.117475032806