{"id":223182,"date":"2026-03-13T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/13\/linux-6-12-through-linux-7-0-file-system-benchmarks-for-ext4-xfs\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T10:05:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T14:05:08","slug":"linux-6-12-through-linux-7-0-file-system-benchmarks-for-ext4-xfs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/13\/linux-6-12-through-linux-7-0-file-system-benchmarks-for-ext4-xfs\/","title":{"rendered":"Linux 6.12 Through Linux 7.0 File-System Benchmarks For EXT4 + XFS"},"content":{"rendered":"

Linux 6.12 Through Linux 7.0 File-System Benchmarks For EXT4 + XFS<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/review\/linux-612-linux-70-xfs-ext4<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-03-13 10:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: www.phoronix.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Earlier this month were various Linux 7.0 file-system benchmarks showing how XFS is leading the race in the overall upstream Linux file-system performance on this forthcoming kernel. Stemming from that testing some premium supporters requested a fresh look at the historical performance of XFS as well as EXT4. So today’s article is a look at how XFS and EXT4 have performed on every kernel release going back to Linux 6.12 LTS.<\/p>\n

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Due to each round of file-system benchmarks taking hours, Linux 6.12 LTS was the cut-off for this comparison since that already stretches to November 2024 and was that year’s Long Term Support kernel. Just EXT4 and XFS are being looked at today while a separate article is still being worked on for a similar comparison with the Btrfs file-system performance over succeeding kernels.<\/p>\n

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XFS and EXT4 were tested each time with its default mount options and using the Ubuntu Mainline Kernel PPA for all of the tested kernel builds for easy reproducibility.<\/p>\n

A Solidigm D7-PS1010 PCIe 5.0 NVMe SSD (SB5PH27X038T) was used for testing the file-systems on each of these Linux kernel versions. This Solidigm PCIe 5.0 NVMe SSD was running on a server build with the AMD EPYC 9745 128-Core Zen 5 CPU, Gigabyte MZ33-AR1 motherboard, and 12 x 64GB DDR5 memory. An Ubuntu 26.04 development snapshot with all its latest packages were running on this AMD EPYC Turin server.<\/p>\n

So let’s see how EXT4 and XFS upstream file-system performance has evolved roughly over the past year and a half of Linux kernel releases.<\/p>\n

Page 1 – IntroductionPage 2 – FIOPage 3 – FIOPage 4 – ClickHouse + Apache CouchDBPage 5 – CockroachDB + TigerBeetlePage 6 – MariaDBPage 7 – DuckDB + PostgreSQL<\/p>\n

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