ZFS is often looked upon as an advanced, superior file-system
and one of the strong points of the Solaris/OpenSolaris platform while
most feel that only recently has Linux been able to catch-up on the
file-system front with EXT4 and the still-experimental Btrfs. ZFS is
copy-on-write, self-healing with 256-bit checksums, supports
compression, online pool growth, scales much better than the UFS
file-system commonly used on BSD operating systems, supports snapshots,
supports deduplication, and the list goes on for the features of this
file-system developed by Sun Microsystems. In this article we are seeing
how well the performance of the ZFS file-system under PC-BSD/FreeBSD 8.1
stacks up to UFS (including UFS+J and UFS+S) and on the Linux side with
EXT4 and Btrfs.
Read more at Phoronix.
Benchmarking ZFS On FreeBSD vs. EXT4 & Btrfs On Linux
Posted on Thursday, July 29 2010 @ 8:15 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck