found this interesting:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;indico.cern.ch&#x2F;event&#x2F;346931&#x2F;session&#x2F;4&#x2F;contribution&#x2F;62&#x2F;attachments&#x2F;684674&#x2F;940478&#x2F;beegfs-at-desy.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;indico.cern.ch&#x2F;event&#x2F;346931&#x2F;session&#x2F;4&#x2F;contribution&#x2F;6...</a><p>&gt; Plain BeeGFS is as reliable as your hardware<p>currently i would give MooseFS, orangefs or lizardfs a try.<p>Had experience with ceph and glusterfs and both I can not recommend.