A lot of commenters here are treating this announcement like it is the end of Lustre. It is not. Lustre has a LONG history and a lot of deployments. A partia

A lot of commenters here are treating this announcement like it is the end of Lustre. It is not. Lustre has a LONG history and a lot of deployments. A partial history: 1999: Lustre is started as a research project at Carnegie Mellon University 2001: Cluster File Systems, Inc. founded to commercialize Lustre 2007: Sun acquires Cluster File Systems 2010: Oracle buys Sun Microsystems, acquires Lustre assets 2010: Eric Barton leaves Oracle and founds Whamcloud, continues Lustre dev there 2012: Intel buys Whamcloud for its Lustre assets 2013: Oracle sells Lustre-related assets to Xyratex 2013: Intel tries to extend Lustre to Hadoop use-cases 2014: Seagate buys Xyratex 2017: Intel discontinues its Lustre Filesystem business I seem to remember IBM and HP being involved at some stage, but I'm having trouble finding it online now. The only serious open-source competitors to Lustre are Ceph and glusterfs. But Ceph is too unstable, and glusterfs 3.0 is based off of distributed hash tables and so is not strongly consistent.