F2FS Results Mixed Against Microsoft's exFAT On Linux

The Linux NTFS testing was done via the similarly based NTFS-3G FUSE file-system. So to appease the many readers wanting F2FS vs. exFAT results in particular, here are those results, albeit comparing an in-kernel file-system to FUSE. File-Systems in User-Space is what Linus Torvalds as being used for toys and misguided people.

For this article, the NTFS, exFAT, and F2FS comparison was done from a Corsair USB 3.0 Flash Voyager 16GB. For those wanting to see the native Linux file-systems compared to F2FS, see the other aforelinked articles. All testing was done with the stock mount options and packages from Ubuntu 13.04. Making these tests are a bit more interesting is that the Linux 3.9-rc1 kernel was used where F2FS has seen some improvements by Samsung over the Linux 3.8 kernel where it was originally introduced.