Excellent write up. I used to work for a VFX company in 2008. At that point we used lustre to get high throughput file storage. From memory we had something l

Excellent write up. I used to work for a VFX company in 2008. At that point we used lustre to get high throughput file storage. From memory we had something like 20 racks of server/disks to get a 3-6 gigabyte/s (sustained) throughput on a 300tb filesystem. It is hilarious to think that a 2u box can now theoretically saturate 2x100gig nics.