I also tried ceph and gluster before settling on moosefs a couple years ago -- gluster was slow for filesystem operations on a lot of files and it would get into a state where some files weren&#x27;t replicated properly with seemingly no problems with the network for physical servers.<p>Ceph at that time was unstable -- once I had a couple boxes kernel panic in testing, I jumped off that boat immediately.<p>Moosefs is pragmatic -- written in pretty tight C, performant, and the web UI for seeing the state of the cluster and how files are replicating is very nice.  We have a small cluster with maybe a dozen nodes running for almost 2 years now with no hiccups...