Hi fediverse, I'm asking you to do my homework 👀
Jokes aside, I am supposed to analyze the performance of filesystems for an assignment, and since I'm a #Linux enthousiast, I've decided to checkout out #ext4 and #btrfs since they are both quite popular.

I am posting my results here because I simply don't understand what explains the significant 15-20Mib throughput writing-speed gap between the two file systems. Initially I thought of compression, but it's disabled. Any clues ?

Even online articles seem to disagree with these results:
> Btrfs ranked last or second-to-last across all four workloads. The gap was widest for database writes: XFS and ext4 were described as “easily the fastest” in the SQLite concurrent write test, while Btrfs was “by far the slowest.” The copy-on-write mechanism that gives Btrfs its data integrity properties is the direct cause of that write penalty.

https://commandlinux.com/statistics/file-system-performance-comparison-statistics-ext4-xfs-btrfs-zfs/

File System Performance Comparison Statistics 2026

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