Last week I provided a look at the EXT4 and XFS performance from Linux 6.12 LTS through Linux 7.0 in its current development form. As mentioned in that article and as requested by many Phoronix readers, benchmarks have since wrapped up looking at how the Btrfs copy-on-write file-system performance has evolved since that late 2024 period and all major Linux kernel releases past that Long Term Support version.

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[–] 30 points 5 months ago* (6 children)

Maybe this is wrong, but my understanding is BTRFS is generally slower than EXT4, and that's okay. It's not going for speed

Where it shines is not in its speed but in its versatility offering compression, rollback, subvol, etc

For example, for applications, you do a lot of writes/reads to Documents or load resources like for games, so use EXT4 for /home or for a dedicated /games partition

For your system, it could be broken via config tweaks or updates, so use BTRFS to have the rollback options

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  • [–] 16 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    I'm still amazed from discovering filesystem-level compression.

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