Is GridFS fast and reliable enough for production?

Question

I develop a new website and I want to use GridFS as storage for all user uploads, because it offers a lot of advantages compared to a normal filesystem storage.

Benc

Answer 1

Heads-up on repairs for larger DBs though - a new system we're developing, mongo didn't cleanly exit, and repairing the 7TB GridFS looks like it will take 130 hrs.

Because of this, I think I'll look at switching to OpenStack Swift or Ceph. Still, until then it was good. And the nginx-gridfs module is sweet.