EXT4, Btrfs, XFS & NILFS2 HDD File-System Tests On Linux 4.8
NILFS2 was by far the fastest for SQLite while the CoW-based Btrfs was the slowest.
XFS and EXT4 tended to do the best meanwhile when it came to running the Flexible IO Tester on this Hitachi enterprise hard drive with Linux 4.8.