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Btrfs Performance From Linux 6.12 To Linux 7.0 Shows Regressions (www.phoronix.com)

submitted 5 days ago by cm0002@suppo.fi to c/linux@programming.dev

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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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[–] KindaABigDyl@programming.dev 30 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (3 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

[–] morto@piefed.social 16 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] vividspecter@aussie.zone 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

cp --reflink is really cool as well, even if it's just something you expect from a CoW filesystem. Being able to near instantly duplicate a file or folder and work on its copy (with only the changes taking up space) is very useful.

[–] morto@piefed.social 9 points 5 days ago

That's great too!

[–] ExtremeUnicorn@feddit.org 4 points 5 days ago

Also, it has self-healing RAID capabilities.

[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It's not that it's slower than ext4 but that btrfs itself has gotten slower.

[–] KindaABigDyl@programming.dev 1 points 4 days ago

Right but what I'm saying is speed wasn't really the reason to use it in the first place