Using Disk Compression With Btrfs To Enhance Performance Written by Michael Larabel in Software on 28 August 2010 at 09:13 AM EDT. Page 1 of 4. 24 Comments. Earlier this month we delivered benchmarks comparing the ZFS, EXT4, and Btrfs file-systems from both solid-state drives and hard drives. The EXT4 file-system was the clear winner in terms of the overall disk performance while Btrfs came in sec