File-System Benchmarks With The Linux 2.6.34 Kernel Written by Michael Larabel in Software on 14 April 2010 at 11:01 AM EDT. Page 1 of 5. 19 Comments. File-system benchmarks have become quite common to Phoronix in the age of EXT4 and Btrfs with these new file-systems driving much of the interest and as we have also been finding the Linux file-system performance to change between kernel releases (a