Linux 3.9 Kernel File-System Comparison Linux 3.9 kernel file-system benchmarks of EXT4, Btrfs, XFS, and F2FS file-systems. Linux disk benchmarking from a HDD and SSD disk drives. Benchmarks for a future article on Phoronix.com. OCZ Solid 2 SSD: EXT4: Processor: AMD FX-8150 Eight-Core @ 3.60GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI 760GM-P34(FX) (MS-7641) v4.0, Chipset: AMD RS780 + SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 500GB Western Digital WD5000AZRX-0 + 64GB OCZ AGILITY, Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 3000 256MB, Audio: Realtek ALC887-VD, Monitor: DELL P2210H, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168B OS: Ubuntu 13.04, Kernel: 3.9.0-999-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 6.6.0, Display Server: X Server 1.13.2, Display Driver: radeon 7.1.99, OpenGL: 3.0 Mesa 9.2-devel Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.7, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 OCZ Solid 2 SSD: Btrfs: Processor: AMD FX-8150 Eight-Core @ 3.60GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI 760GM-P34(FX) (MS-7641) v4.0, Chipset: AMD RS780 + SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 500GB Western Digital WD5000AZRX-0 + 64GB OCZ AGILITY, Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 3000 256MB, Audio: Realtek ALC887-VD, Monitor: DELL P2210H, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168B OS: Ubuntu 13.04, Kernel: 3.9.0-999-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 6.6.0, Display Server: X Server 1.13.2, Display Driver: radeon 7.1.99, OpenGL: 3.0 Mesa 9.2-devel Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.7, File-System: btrfs, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 OCZ Solid 2 SSD: XFS: Processor: AMD FX-8150 Eight-Core @ 3.60GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI 760GM-P34(FX) (MS-7641) v4.0, Chipset: AMD RS780 + SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 500GB Western Digital WD5000AZRX-0 + 64GB OCZ AGILITY, Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 3000 256MB, Audio: Realtek ALC887-VD, Monitor: DELL P2210H, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168B OS: Ubuntu 13.04, Kernel: 3.9.0-999-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 6.6.0, Display Server: X Server 1.13.2, Display Driver: radeon 7.1.99, OpenGL: 3.0 Mesa 9.2-devel Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.7, File-System: xfs, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 OCZ Solid 2 SSD: F2FS: Processor: AMD FX-8150 Eight-Core @ 3.60GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI 760GM-P34(FX) (MS-7641) v4.0, Chipset: AMD RS780 + SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 500GB Western Digital WD5000AZRX-0 + 64GB OCZ AGILITY, Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 3000 256MB, Audio: Realtek ALC887-VD, Monitor: DELL P2210H, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168B OS: Ubuntu 13.04, Kernel: 3.9.0-999-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 6.6.0, Display Server: X Server 1.13.2, Display Driver: radeon 7.1.99, OpenGL: 3.0 Mesa 9.2-devel Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.7, File-System: F2FS, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Western Digital WD1003FBYX HDD: EXT4: Processor: AMD FX-8150 Eight-Core @ 3.60GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI 760GM-P34(FX) (MS-7641) v4.0, Chipset: AMD RS780 + SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 500GB Western Digital WD5000AZRX-0 + 1000GB Western Digital WD1003FBYX-0, Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 3000 256MB, Audio: Realtek ALC887-VD, Monitor: DELL P2210H, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168B OS: Ubuntu 13.04, Kernel: 3.9.0-999-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 6.6.0, Display Server: X Server 1.13.2, Display Driver: radeon 7.1.99, OpenGL: 3.0 Mesa 9.2-devel Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.7, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Western Digital WD1003FBYX HDD: Btrfs: Processor: AMD FX-8150 Eight-Core @ 3.60GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI 760GM-P34(FX) (MS-7641) v4.0, Chipset: AMD RS780 + SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 500GB Western Digital WD5000AZRX-0 + 1000GB Western Digital WD1003FBYX-0, Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 3000 256MB, Audio: Realtek ALC887-VD, Monitor: DELL P2210H, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168B OS: Ubuntu 13.04, Kernel: 3.9.0-999-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 6.6.0, Display Server: X Server 1.13.2, Display Driver: radeon 7.1.99, OpenGL: 3.0 Mesa 9.2-devel Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.7, File-System: btrfs, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Western Digital WD1003FBYX HDD: XFS: Processor: AMD FX-8150 Eight-Core @ 3.60GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI 760GM-P34(FX) (MS-7641) v4.0, Chipset: AMD RS780 + SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 500GB Western Digital WD5000AZRX-0 + 1000GB Western Digital WD1003FBYX-0, Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 3000 256MB, Audio: Realtek ALC887-VD, Monitor: DELL P2210H, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168B OS: Ubuntu 13.04, Kernel: 3.9.0-999-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 6.6.0, Display Server: X Server 1.13.2, Display Driver: radeon 7.1.99, OpenGL: 3.0 Mesa 9.2-devel Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.7, File-System: xfs, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 FS-Mark 3.3 Test: 1000 Files, 1MB Size Files/s > Higher Is Better OCZ Solid 2 SSD: EXT4 ................. 54.30 |============== OCZ Solid 2 SSD: Btrfs ................ 52.80 |============== OCZ Solid 2 SSD: XFS .................. 59.37 |=============== OCZ Solid 2 SSD: F2FS ................. 119.67 |=============================== Western Digital WD1003FBYX HDD: EXT4 .. 16.43 |==== Western Digital WD1003FBYX HDD: Btrfs . 24.44 |====== Western Digital WD1003FBYX HDD: XFS ... 22.10 |====== FS-Mark 3.3 Test: 5000 Files, 1MB Size, 4 Threads Files/s > Higher Is Better OCZ Solid 2 SSD: EXT4 ................. 92.40 |======================== OCZ Solid 2 SSD: Btrfs ................ 77.73 |==================== OCZ Solid 2 SSD: XFS .................. 88.60 |======================= OCZ Solid 2 SSD: F2FS ................. 119.60 |=============================== Western Digital WD1003FBYX HDD: EXT4 .. 40.80 |=========== Western Digital WD1003FBYX HDD: Btrfs . 36.33 |========= Western Digital WD1003FBYX HDD: XFS ... 45.20 |============ FS-Mark 3.3 Test: 4000 Files, 32 Sub Dirs, 1MB Size Files/s > Higher Is Better OCZ Solid 2 SSD: EXT4 ................. 52.13 |============== OCZ Solid 2 SSD: Btrfs ................ 47.93 |============= OCZ Solid 2 SSD: XFS .................. 58.17 |================ OCZ Solid 2 SSD: F2FS ................. 112.20 |=============================== Western Digital WD1003FBYX HDD: EXT4 .. 15.87 |==== Western Digital WD1003FBYX HDD: Btrfs . 22.54 |====== Western Digital WD1003FBYX HDD: XFS ... 25.98 |======= IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 1MB - File Size: 8GB - Disk Test: Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better OCZ Solid 2 SSD: EXT4 ................. 222.61 |============================== OCZ Solid 2 SSD: Btrfs ................ 233.43 |=============================== OCZ Solid 2 SSD: XFS .................. 218.25 |============================= OCZ Solid 2 SSD: F2FS ................. 214.51 |============================ Western Digital WD1003FBYX HDD: EXT4 .. 126.54 |================= Western Digital WD1003FBYX HDD: Btrfs . 109.09 |============== Western Digital WD1003FBYX HDD: XFS ... 115.40 |=============== IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 4Kb - File Size: 8GB - Disk Test: Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better OCZ Solid 2 SSD: EXT4 ................. 222.73 |============================== OCZ Solid 2 SSD: Btrfs ................ 233.20 |=============================== OCZ Solid 2 SSD: XFS .................. 216.89 |============================= OCZ Solid 2 SSD: F2FS ................. 213.09 |============================ Western Digital WD1003FBYX HDD: EXT4 .. 129.09 |================= Western Digital WD1003FBYX HDD: Btrfs . 109.32 |=============== Western Digital WD1003FBYX HDD: XFS ... 114.07 |=============== IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 1MB - File Size: 8GB - Disk Test: Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better OCZ Solid 2 SSD: EXT4 ................. 126.79 |============================== OCZ Solid 2 SSD: Btrfs ................ 122.28 |============================= OCZ Solid 2 SSD: XFS .................. 126.73 |============================== OCZ Solid 2 SSD: F2FS ................. 125.80 |============================== Western Digital WD1003FBYX HDD: EXT4 .. 125.37 |============================= Western Digital WD1003FBYX HDD: Btrfs . 132.06 |=============================== Western Digital WD1003FBYX HDD: XFS ... 110.44 |========================== IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 4Kb - File Size: 8GB - Disk Test: Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better OCZ Solid 2 SSD: EXT4 ................. 125.93 |============================== OCZ Solid 2 SSD: Btrfs ................ 122.78 |============================= OCZ Solid 2 SSD: XFS .................. 126.67 |============================== OCZ Solid 2 SSD: F2FS ................. 125.22 |============================= Western Digital WD1003FBYX HDD: EXT4 .. 122.30 |============================= Western Digital WD1003FBYX HDD: Btrfs . 131.88 |=============================== Western Digital WD1003FBYX HDD: XFS ... 114.35 |=========================== Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Compile MB/s > Higher Is Better OCZ Solid 2 SSD: EXT4 ................. 109.07 |========================= OCZ Solid 2 SSD: Btrfs ................ 129.02 |============================== OCZ Solid 2 SSD: XFS .................. 114.11 |=========================== OCZ Solid 2 SSD: F2FS ................. 112.22 |========================== Western Digital WD1003FBYX HDD: EXT4 .. 76.79 |================== Western Digital WD1003FBYX HDD: Btrfs . 132.99 |=============================== Western Digital WD1003FBYX HDD: XFS ... 69.11 |================ Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Initial Create MB/s > Higher Is Better OCZ Solid 2 SSD: EXT4 ................. 102.60 |=============================== OCZ Solid 2 SSD: Btrfs ................ 55.27 |================= OCZ Solid 2 SSD: XFS .................. 70.65 |===================== OCZ Solid 2 SSD: F2FS ................. 58.13 |================== Western Digital WD1003FBYX HDD: EXT4 .. 78.65 |======================== Western Digital WD1003FBYX HDD: Btrfs . 59.17 |================== Western Digital WD1003FBYX HDD: XFS ... 66.30 |==================== PostMark 1.51 Disk Transaction Performance TPS > Higher Is Better OCZ Solid 2 SSD: EXT4 ................. 1046 |======================== OCZ Solid 2 SSD: Btrfs ................ 558 |============= OCZ Solid 2 SSD: XFS .................. 1254 |============================ OCZ Solid 2 SSD: F2FS ................. 1459 |================================= Western Digital WD1003FBYX HDD: EXT4 .. 889 |==================== Western Digital WD1003FBYX HDD: Btrfs . 410 |========= Western Digital WD1003FBYX HDD: XFS ... 960 |======================