F2FS File-System Shows Hope, Runs Against Btrfs & EXT4

The Flash-Friendly File-System wasn't the fastest of the bunch for Compile Bench but had faired right in the middle of the set of seven Linux file-systems benchmarked from the Linux 3.8 kernel.

For the PostMark mail server benchmark, the Flash-Friendly File-System was right in line with EXT4 and XFS for delivering the best performance.

When it comes to these initial F2FS file-system benchmark results, the performance overall is very nice for this new file-system. However, as shown by the Dbench result, the data might not always be writing to the disk right away compared to other Linux file-systems. The reliability of this brand new file-system also wasn't a focus of this Linux benchmarking but just the overall performance. Regardless, it will be interesting to see what ends up happening with this now-mainline Flash-Friendly File-System courtesy of Samsung and what their next steps are for this open-source project and if it ends up shipping in use by some of their products.