Testing Filesystem Performance under Linux 4.11 of XFS, BtrFS, F2Fs and EXT4
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Phoronix has run a test to compare four major Linux filesystems on the 4.10 and 4.11 kernel series to compare their performance. No surprise, XFS is the clear winner with BtrFS the clear loser; XFS being built for extreme performance while performance is not a significant factor in the design of BtrFS.
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Great example of why we use XFS for general purpose workloads. Screaming fast, incredibly mature and stable.
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@scottalanmiller said in Testing Filesystem Performance under Linux 4.11 of XFS, BtrFS, F2Fs and EXT4:
Great example of why we use XFS for general purpose workloads. Screaming fast, incredibly mature and stable.
Good old XFS, still blazing fast.
Those charts make me want to stay away from brtfs. Do they expect to do anything for performance on brtfs?
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Why is ext4 still default in Fedora Workstation instead of XFS if used for general purpose?
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@black3dynamite said in Testing Filesystem Performance under Linux 4.11 of XFS, BtrFS, F2Fs and EXT4:
Why is ext4 still default in Fedora Workstation instead of XFS if used for general purpose?
The one feature XFS doesn't have is the ability to shrink the file system size. That's really the only technical reason I know of.
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@travisdh1 said in Testing Filesystem Performance under Linux 4.11 of XFS, BtrFS, F2Fs and EXT4:
@black3dynamite said in Testing Filesystem Performance under Linux 4.11 of XFS, BtrFS, F2Fs and EXT4:
Why is ext4 still default in Fedora Workstation instead of XFS if used for general purpose?
The one feature XFS doesn't have is the ability to shrink the file system size. That's really the only technical reason I know of.
Which is really a ridiculous thing to be doing, anyway.
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@black3dynamite said in Testing Filesystem Performance under Linux 4.11 of XFS, BtrFS, F2Fs and EXT4:
Why is ext4 still default in Fedora Workstation instead of XFS if used for general purpose?
Awfully weird since CentOS 7 went to XFS and that was like Fedora 19 behind it.
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I think Fedora Server Edition is using XFS.
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@black3dynamite said in Testing Filesystem Performance under Linux 4.11 of XFS, BtrFS, F2Fs and EXT4:
I think Fedora Server Edition is using XFS.
So weird that there are two different standards.
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ext4 still the defaults on Debian distro as well.
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@momurda said in Testing Filesystem Performance under Linux 4.11 of XFS, BtrFS, F2Fs and EXT4:
ext4 still the defaults on Debian distro as well.
Well Debian, sure. Not surprised there. Fuddy duddy distro
