HDD & SSD File-System Benchmarks On Linux 3.9 Kernel Written by Michael Larabel in Storage on 20 March 2013 at 01:26 PM EDT. Page 1 of 4. 11 Comments. For those curious where the common Linux file-systems stand performance-wise for the Linux 3.9 kernel, here are benchmarks from a solid-state drive and hard drive when comparing the EXT4, Btrfs, XFS, and F2FS file-systems from this yet-to-be-release