Creating An NFS-Like Standalone Storage Server With GlusterFS On Debian Lenny

FYI, we used this at the company I last worked for. Corrupted our entire filesystem and took down an 8 node production cluster.

After weeks of user complaints, downed systems and the like they bought a SAN. I left the company before it was implemented, but I think it's stable now.

At some point we let the Gluster developers in to test on the machines (scary, yes) and they were unable to fix the issue.

We use GlusterFS and hate it. It's healing seems to do more bad than good and we're looking at moving all of our files to S3 instead.

How have I never heard of this filesystem? It sounds pretty awesome. Has anyone ever used it before?