Btrfs slow read/write speed on nvme

kdiskmark using fio benchmark isn’t in a real world scenario.

I checked cat for reading a large game data 7z 30 GB in two different partitions (Ext4 and Btrfs) in the same Nvme SSD.

Open bash shell in terminal:

Btrfs

$ time cat Game.7z  > /dev/null

real	0m18,430s
user	0m0,045s
sys	0m10,223s

18 sec reading is done

Ext4

$ time cat Game.7z  > /dev/null

real	0m28,873s
user	0m0,053s
sys	0m12,955s

28 sec reading is done

However I don’t understand why.

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