Testing F2FS With Its Multi-Drive Capabilities

But fortunately when running BlogBench, we did see better performance in the multi-disk setups of F2FS. The performance had also continued increasing up to using three disks.

With CompileBench there was some variation in the results but the multi-drive F2FS setups did appear to boost performance up to four SSDs.

With PostgreSQL there was weird behavior when running pgbench on three Toshiba SSDs, but aside from that, the performance was scaling up in this multi-drive F2FS mode. There was a 10% boost in performance when adding a second drive to the F2FS volume or 27% boost when going from one SSD to four of these drives.

Overall these results were interesting and show potential for the F2FS multi-drive capability. I'll continue monitoring F2FS and running more benchmarks when new features continue to land. Feel free to share your thoughts on the Flash-Friendly File-System with us in the forums.