Yup in particular Brian Behlendorf from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has been a major contributor to ZoL/OpenZFS.

It makes sense for lustre, as you can remove the hardware raid controller and just use "dumb" jbods.

As lustre is mostly a network raid0 (its got better now) it makes sense as you really shouldn't be using it for unreconstructable data.(gross simplification alert)