Linux 6.17 File-System Benchmarks, Including OpenZFS & Bcachefs
Running Dbench on these Linux 6.17 file-systems saw EXT4 running the fastest followed by OpenZFS and then Btrfs.
For the ClickHouse database server, XFS had a narrow lead over EXT4 and F2FS as the fastest out-of-the-box file-system. OpenZFS in this simple/default configuration was the slowest.
When taking the geometric mean of all these file-systems tested on Linux 6.17, EXT4 had a narrow lead over XFS as the fastest file-system. This likely is the first upset over XFS thanks to some of the EXT4 improvements merged this cycle. F2FS was in a distant third followed by the CoW Btrfs and then OpenZFS and Bcachefs. Again, for a default/out-of-the-box comparison on a single PCIe Gen5 SSD.
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