This has been on the cards for at least a year, with the increasingly doomy commits noted by HN.

Unfortunately I don't know of any other open projects that can obviously scale to the same degree. I built up around 100PiB of storage under minio with a former employer. It's very robust in the face of drive & server failure, is simple to manage on bare hardware with ansible. We got 180Gbps sustained writes out of it, with some part time hardware maintenance.

Don't know if there's an opportunity here for larger users of minio to band together and fund some continued maintenance?

I definitely had a wishlist and some hardware management scripts around it that could be integrated into it.