Trying Out & Benchmarking Bcachefs On Linux 6.7

Written by Michael Larabel in Software on 3 November 2023 at 10:59 AM EDT. Page 3 of 4. 87 Comments.
Application Start-up Time benchmark with settings of Background I/O Mix: Only Sequential Reads, Application To Start: xterm, Disk Target: Default Test Directory. EXT4 was the fastest.
Application Start-up Time benchmark with settings of Background I/O Mix: Sequential Reads + Writes, Application To Start: xterm, Disk Target: Default Test Directory. F2FS was the fastest.
Application Start-up Time benchmark with settings of Background I/O Mix: Only Sequential Reads, Application To Start: GNOME Terminal, Disk Target: Default Test Directory. F2FS was the fastest.
Application Start-up Time benchmark with settings of Background I/O Mix: Sequential Reads + Writes, Application To Start: GNOME Terminal, Disk Target: Default Test Directory. F2FS was the fastest.

When running various application start-up time benchmarks, Bcachefs was similar to EXT4, F2FS, and XFS while Btrfs was the slowest here. The flash-optimized F2FS was the best performer in these conditions.

FS-Mark benchmark with settings of Test: 1000 Files, 1MB Size. XFS was the fastest.
FS-Mark benchmark with settings of Test: 5000 Files, 1MB Size, 4 Threads. F2FS was the fastest.

Switching the testing over to FS-Mark, Bcachefs in its single drive out-of-the-box configuration was remaining in last place compared to the other file-system options tested.


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