USB 3.0 Flash Drive F2FS File-System Tests
Benchmarking F2FS and EXT3, EXT4, Xfs, and Btrfs file-systems from a USB 3.0 Corsair Flash Voyager. Benchmarking for a future article on Phoronix.com.


F2FS: 

	Processor: AMD FX-8350 Eight-Core @ 4.00GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS Crosshair V Formula, Chipset: AMD ATI RD890 bridge, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 60GB OCZ VERTEX2, Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 6570 512MB, Audio: Realtek ALC889, Monitor: DELL P2210H, Network: Intel 82583V Gigabit Connection

	OS: Ubuntu 13.04, Kernel: 3.8.0-7-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Xfce 4.10, Display Server: X Server 1.13.2, Display Driver: radeon 7.1.0, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 9.2-devel (git-d8d58bd) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.7 + Clang 3.3 (SVN 176002) + LLVM 3.3svn, File-System: F2FS, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080

Btrfs: 

	Processor: AMD FX-8350 Eight-Core @ 4.00GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS Crosshair V Formula, Chipset: AMD ATI RD890 bridge, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 60GB OCZ VERTEX2, Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 6570 512MB, Audio: Realtek ALC889, Monitor: DELL P2210H, Network: Intel 82583V Gigabit Connection

	OS: Ubuntu 13.04, Kernel: 3.8.0-7-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Xfce 4.10, Display Server: X Server 1.13.2, Display Driver: radeon 7.1.0, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 9.2-devel (git-d8d58bd) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.7 + Clang 3.3 (SVN 176002) + LLVM 3.3svn, File-System: btrfs, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080

EXT3: 

	Processor: AMD FX-8350 Eight-Core @ 4.00GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS Crosshair V Formula, Chipset: AMD ATI RD890 bridge, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 60GB OCZ VERTEX2, Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 6570 512MB, Audio: Realtek ALC889, Monitor: DELL P2210H, Network: Intel 82583V Gigabit Connection

	OS: Ubuntu 13.04, Kernel: 3.8.0-7-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Xfce 4.10, Display Server: X Server 1.13.2, Display Driver: radeon 7.1.0, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 9.2-devel (git-d8d58bd) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.7 + Clang 3.3 (SVN 176002) + LLVM 3.3svn, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080

EXT4: 

	Processor: AMD FX-8350 Eight-Core @ 4.00GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS Crosshair V Formula, Chipset: AMD ATI RD890 bridge, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 60GB OCZ VERTEX2, Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 6570 512MB, Audio: Realtek ALC889, Monitor: DELL P2210H, Network: Intel 82583V Gigabit Connection

	OS: Ubuntu 13.04, Kernel: 3.8.0-7-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Xfce 4.10, Display Server: X Server 1.13.2, Display Driver: radeon 7.1.0, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 9.2-devel (git-d8d58bd) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.7 + Clang 3.3 (SVN 176002) + LLVM 3.3svn, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080

XFS: 

	Processor: AMD FX-8350 Eight-Core @ 4.00GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS Crosshair V Formula, Chipset: AMD ATI RD890 bridge, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 60GB OCZ VERTEX2, Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 6570 512MB, Audio: Realtek ALC889, Monitor: DELL P2210H, Network: Intel 82583V Gigabit Connection

	OS: Ubuntu 13.04, Kernel: 3.8.0-7-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Xfce 4.10, Display Server: X Server 1.13.2, Display Driver: radeon 7.1.0, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 9.2-devel (git-d8d58bd) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.7 + Clang 3.3 (SVN 176002) + LLVM 3.3svn, File-System: xfs, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080


PostMark 1.51
Disk Transaction Performance
TPS > Higher Is Better
F2FS .. 3731 |=================================================================
Btrfs . 2145 |=====================================
EXT3 .. 63   |=
EXT4 .. 3048 |=====================================================
XFS ... 2818 |=================================================


Compile Bench 0.6
Test: Initial Create
MB/s > Higher Is Better
F2FS .. 47.50 |=====================================================
Btrfs . 10.36 |============
EXT3 .. 57.12 |================================================================
EXT4 .. 34.90 |=======================================
XFS ... 19.62 |======================


Compile Bench 0.6
Test: Compile
MB/s > Higher Is Better
F2FS .. 22.37 |=========================================
Btrfs . 34.70 |================================================================
EXT3 .. 2.32  |====
EXT4 .. 6.99  |=============
XFS ... 5.37  |==========


IOzone 3.405
Record Size: 64Kb - File Size: 4GB - Disk Test: Write Performance
MB/s > Higher Is Better
F2FS .. 20.64 |=============================================================
Btrfs . 18.49 |======================================================
EXT3 .. 8.11  |========================
EXT4 .. 20.44 |============================================================
XFS ... 21.75 |================================================================


IOzone 3.405
Record Size: 64Kb - File Size: 4GB - Disk Test: Read Performance
MB/s > Higher Is Better
F2FS .. 3926.87 |============================================
Btrfs . 4761.97 |=====================================================
EXT3 .. 5189.51 |==========================================================
EXT4 .. 5519.65 |=============================================================
XFS ... 5574.23 |==============================================================


Dbench 4.0
Client Count: 1
MB/s > Higher Is Better
F2FS .. 46.54 |=========================================================
Btrfs . 12.02 |===============
EXT3 .. 16.62 |====================
EXT4 .. 27.72 |==================================
XFS ... 51.98 |================================================================


FS-Mark 3.3
Test: 4000 Files, 32 Sub Dirs, 1MB Size
Files/s > Higher Is Better
F2FS .. 17.30 |================================================================
Btrfs . 10.90 |========================================
EXT3 .. 5.53  |====================
EXT4 .. 17.38 |================================================================
XFS ... 12.52 |==============================================


FS-Mark 3.3
Test: 1000 Files, 1MB Size
Files/s > Higher Is Better
F2FS .. 17.35 |================================================================
Btrfs . 10.93 |========================================
EXT3 .. 5.40  |====================
EXT4 .. 14.40 |=====================================================
XFS ... 14.12 |====================================================