Trying Out & Benchmarking Bcachefs On Linux 6.7

Bcachefs was slower than the other four when it came to running the ClickHouse database on this NVMe SSD.

Bcachefs out-of-the-box on this NVMe SSD testing setup on Linux Git was also much slower than the other file-systems tested on the same hardware for PostgreSQL.

With SQLite benchmarks Bcachefs out-of-the-box was faster than Btrfs, but both of these CoW file-systems with their default mount options were much slower than XFS, EXT4, and F2FS.

When stressing the system with the Nginx web server and executing 500 concurrent connections, the file-system selection had some impact. Bcachefs performed slightly better than Btrfs here while XFS had a narrow first place finish.

Well, that's where things stand at the moment in looking at Bcachefs out-of-the-box that's newly merged for Linux 6.7. If there is reader interest in seeing any tuned configurations, multi-drive, etc, voice your thoughts by commenting on this article in the forums.