ZFS Still Trying To Compete With EXT4 & Btrfs On Linux

ZFS On Linux 0.6.2 was also in place for the Dbench workload with the other Linux file-systems being over 14% faster.

ZFS was faster than Btrfs for the compile task within Compile Bench, but it still lost out to EXT4.

For the initial create task in Compile Bench and the PostMark mail server disk benchmark, ZFS lost out in both scenarios to Btrfs and EXT4.

ZFS didn't beat out EXT4 and Btrfs from the testing done today with a high-end System76 laptop running Ubuntu with the Linux 3.11 kernel, but it did finish better than if using a FUSE-based ZFS implementation. ZFS also tends to advertise other features and advantages than raw single-disk benchmark. Multi-disk benchmarks and other file-system benchmarks will come pending sufficient interest. For now you can see my 10-Way Linux File-System Comparison On Linux 3.10.