[bravetraveler]

I still use Gluster, my thoughts on it are complicated.

I would absolutely not call it easy to admin... but I've enjoyed it. It's very workable.

I've brought volumes back from ashes with only their inode-local metadata! Yet, '/var/lib/glusterd' remains a liability somehow. The details of that recovery escape me.

With RDMA it performs like local-attached storage. Performance is great, but once the thing is off rails... Eesh.

Setup is deceptively easy. There's a few reasonable configurations, far more that are less than ideal. The topology you decide casts a lot of lines/decisions.