Bcachefs Linux File-System Benchmarks vs. Btrfs, EXT4, F2FS, XFS

Written by Michael Larabel in Storage on 30 May 2018 at 04:00 PM EDT. Page 3 of 3. 38 Comments.
Bcachefs Linux File-System Testing + Benchmarks

With Dbench at six clients running, Bcachefs was faster than EXT4 and XFS on the HDD but behind Bcachefs while on the SSD, Bcachefs was faster than Btrfs and F2FS but behind EXT4 and XFS.

Bcachefs Linux File-System Testing + Benchmarks
Bcachefs Linux File-System Testing + Benchmarks

Threaded I/O Tester was too slow to run on the HDD, but for the SSD performance the Bcachefs file-system was outperforming Btrfs and F2FS and around the same speed as XFS in the sequential write performance.

Bcachefs Linux File-System Testing + Benchmarks

Bcachefs happened to be the fastest file-system on the HDD when testing PostgreSQL but the slowest on the solid-state storage.

Those wishing to learn more about Bcachefs can visit the project site while once the file-system has been mainlined I'll certainly be back with more extensive benchmarks.

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