Some Filesystem benchmarks
Some write speed tests on different Unix FS. Surely this is not true in any situation, but as it was done on the same HW with same specs it is relatively high quality.
Blocksize time to create a 50 GB file
XFS EXT4 BTRFS ZFSoL ZFSnative 512 8m6.799s 7m3.175s 7m42.553s 32m1.321s 9m25.898s 1024 4m18.668s 3m52.743s 4m54.397s 17m46.575s 5m9.074s 2048 2m41.528s 2m22.762s 3m1.718s 9m20.834s 2m53.576s 4096 1m39.691s 1m25.329 1m31.303s 5m12.680s 1m46.882s 8192 1m9.436s 1m15.280s 1m16.461s 3m0.966s 1m15.644s 16384 0m55.044s 1m4.419s 1m4.662s 2m20.436s 0m59.150s 32’768 0m49.977s 0m57.332s 0m58.882s 1m38.544s 0m50.164s 65’536 0m45.636s 0m55.312s 0m54.781s 1m24.496s 0m46.127s Blocksize write troughput in MB/s XFS EXT4 BTRFS ZFSoL* ZFSnative** 512 110 127 116 27.9 90.5 1024 208 231 183 50.3 166 2048 333 377 296 95.8 295 4096 539 630 590 172 479 8192 773 713 702 297 677 16384 977 834 833 383 866 32’768 1100 938 915 545 1021 65’536 1200 972 985 637 1080
* ZFS on Linux installed from debian nonfree and contrib repo ** Tested on an Omniosce VM on same HW, 1 CPU 1 GB RAM, always the same specs