ZFS On Linux 3.8 Kernel, ZOL 0.6.1 Initial ZFS On Linux benchmarks... More to come. Testing by Michael Larabel of Phoronix.com. ZFS: Processor: Intel Core i7 720Q @ 1.60GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: LENOVO 4318CTO, Chipset: Intel Core DMI, Memory: 2 x 2048 MB DDR3-1066MHz, Disk: 160GB INTEL SSDSA2M160, Graphics: NVIDIA Quadro FX 880M 1024MB (405/324MHz), Audio: Conexant CX20585, Network: Intel 82577LM Gigabit Connection + Intel Centrino Ultimate-N 6300 OS: Fedora 18 (Spherical Cow), Kernel: 3.8.7-201.fc18.x86_64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.6.3.1, Display Server: X Server 1.13.3, Display Driver: nouveau 1.0.6, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 9.1 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.7.2 20121109, File-System: zfs, Screen Resolution: 1600x900 EXT4: Processor: Intel Core i7 720Q @ 1.60GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: LENOVO 4318CTO, Chipset: Intel Core DMI, Memory: 2 x 2048 MB DDR3-1066MHz, Disk: 160GB INTEL SSDSA2M160, Graphics: NVIDIA Quadro FX 880M 1024MB (405/324MHz), Audio: Conexant CX20585, Network: Intel 82577LM Gigabit Connection + Intel Centrino Ultimate-N 6300 OS: Fedora 18 (Spherical Cow), Kernel: 3.8.7-201.fc18.x86_64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.6.3.1, Display Server: X Server 1.13.3, Display Driver: nouveau 1.0.6, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 9.1 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.7.2 20121109, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1600x900 Dbench 4.0 Client Count: 1 MB/s > Higher Is Better ZFS .. 27.29 |========== EXT4 . 167.29 |================================================================ FS-Mark 3.3 Test: 4000 Files, 32 Sub Dirs, 1MB Size Files/s > Higher Is Better ZFS .. 7.78 |======= EXT4 . 74.07 |================================================================= FS-Mark 3.3 Test: 5000 Files, 1MB Size, 4 Threads Files/s > Higher Is Better ZFS .. 25.63 |===================== EXT4 . 79.73 |================================================================= FS-Mark 3.3 Test: 1000 Files, 1MB Size Files/s > Higher Is Better ZFS .. 46.20 |========================================= EXT4 . 72.50 |=================================================================