Remember that a network filesystem, can't really be faster than the network latency. If you are not in the same rack with your filesystem server, you can expect

Remember that a network filesystem, can't really be faster than the network latency. If you are not in the same rack with your filesystem server, you can expect a few milliseconds of network latency. So a network filesystem that has a scalable design and is POSIX compatible, being in the same latency ballpark with the network sounds quite nice actually.