10 Second Filesystem Performance Table

• Source: 8.3 GiB, 154362 files on a Linux Software RAID 10, f2 layout.
• Destination: Western Digital 300G SATA - WDC WD3200AAKS-75VYA0, one partition.

For each test the filesystem was re-created. The system was otherwise idle. AMD x86-64 3600+ (dual). All measurements are in seconds.

Filesystem Performance

Filesystem	Copy	Delete
xfs (defaults)	1133	311
ext3 (defaults)	767	63
ext2 (defaults)	752	57
jfs	769	121
spadfs	766	7