I'm ~~thinking about~~ giving up my old benchmark frontpage and posting benchmark results right here in this weblog. Easier for me to maintain and much healthier for your eyes ;-) Let me start with all the old stuff first, my next post will deal with more current data: The filesystems tested are the usual suspects: ext2, ext3, jfs, reiser, reiser4 (only a few results available) and xfs for different kernels and different benchmark programs like tiobench, Bonnie++, ioZone and even generic system tools like cp, rm, tar, dd. Also loop-aes was used to test encrypted volumes as well. I've used several benchmark scripts, starting with tio-bench.sh, which has been superseded by bench.sh. And here's yet another one, I've forgotten when I was using this though. Being ugly as hell they served my needs and all they did was executing these commands:

bonnie++ -f -s 2048 -r 0 -n 10:10240:10
tiobench.pl --size 2048 --numruns 1
iozone -s 2048 -f /mnt/bench/iozone.img
tar -xjf linux.tar.bz2 -C /mnt/bench/tarball
find /mnt/bench/tarball
cp -a /mnt/bench/tarball /mnt/bench/tarball_copy
rm -rf /mnt/bench/tarball
dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/bench/test.img bs=1M count=2048
dd if=/mnt/bench/test.img of=/dev/null bs=1M count=2048

the mount options used:

-t ext2fs -o noatime
-t ext3fs -o noatime,data=ordered
-t jfs -o noatime,integrity
-t reiserfs -o noatime,notail
-t reiser4 -o noatime
-t xfs -o noatime,notail

I've tested different machines, very irregularly and only a few results are available for each box:

Enjoy!