Linux 4.2 Ubuntu 15.10 HDD Tests: XFS Leads Over EXT4, Btrfs

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Linux 4.2 Ubuntu 15.10 HDD Tests: XFS Leads Over EXT4, Btrfs

With recently having picked up four Western Digital Black HDDs, I decided to run some fresh hard drive benchmarks with the most common Linux file-systems to see how the performance compares atop Ubuntu 15.10.

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=22342

[halo9en]

"Leads over ext4"... in synthetic benchmarks only. Compile bench shows the real winner.

[speculatrix]

it would have been nice to throw in ZFS benchmarks too

[suberimakuri]

Thanks! Been EXT forever. XFS intriguing.
Looking forward to RAID benchmarks, mdadm?

[milkylainen]

ext4 is still the most well rounded (performance wise) filesystem of the lot. If you aren't tuning fs performance for anything specific, go for ext4. It is almost never a bad choice. Performance wise it is a very consistent all-rounder.
I plan to stick to ext4 as I have yet to see any compelling reasons to change for the average typical workstation workload (varies a lot).