Linux 7.0 File-System Benchmarks With XFS Leading The Way

Written by Michael Larabel in Software on 5 March 2026 at 12:20 PM EST. Page 4 of 5. 40 Comments.
TigerBeetle benchmark with settings of Clients: 4. Btrfs nodatacow was the fastest.
TigerBeetle benchmark with settings of Clients: 16. Btrfs nodatacow was the fastest.

For the TigerBeetle financial transactions database, Btrfs without CoW was the surprising front runner with that new benchmark.

MariaDB benchmark with settings of Test: oltp_read_write, Threads: 128. XFS was the fastest.

Meanwhile for the conventional MariaDB database in a read/write scenario on this 128-core EPYC processor with PCIe 5.0 NVMe SSD storage, XFS had a narrow first place finish.

MariaDB mariadb-slap benchmark with settings of Clients: 128. XFS was the fastest.
MariaDB mariadb-slap benchmark with settings of Clients: 256. XFS was the fastest.

XFS, EXT4, and F2FS were neck-and-neck with the MariaDB mysql-slap benchmark.

DuckDB benchmark with settings of Benchmark: TPC-H Parquet. XFS was the fastest.

XFS also provided the lowest latency for DuckDB with a TPC-H Parquet workload.

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