I wanted to see how various filesystems in Linux stacked up to each other. So, I decided to benchmark them.
The filesystems I am benchmarking are: ext3, ext4, xfs, reiserfs, btrfs, and nilfs2.
The system I am using to do the benchmarking:
Gigabyte MA790FXT-UD5P MotherboardAMD Phenom II 955 Quad Core 3.2GHz4 x Mushkin Silverline PC3-10666 9-9-9-24 1333 2GB RamGigabyte GV-N210OC-512I Geforce 210 512MB 64-bit PCIE Video CardLG 22x DVD Sata Burner2 x WD Caviar Blue 320GB 7200RPM Sata Drives (OS/Other)4 x WD Caviar Blue 80GB 7200RPM Sata Drives (Data)4 x Patriot Memory 32GB Sata SSD (Database)
Gentoo Linux 10.1
The diskspace used is a software raid 0, comprised of 4 partition slices of 4864 cylinders (37.3GB) from the 80GB Hard Drives.
I used the fileio benchmarks in Sysbench 0.4.10 to do these tests.
I created a script that formats the filesystem, mounts it, runs the sysbench prepare statement, clears the …