You're right: nothing justifies kernel panics. There is nothing that GlusterFS or any other user-space program should be able to cause one. We (yes, I'm a Glu

You're right: nothing justifies kernel panics. There is nothing that GlusterFS or any other user-space program should be able to cause one. We (yes, I'm a GlusterFS developer) don't really do anything that any application shouldn't able to do as far as the kernel is concerned. If what we do on behalf of our callers causes a crash, it's the kernel developers' fault and you should engage with them instead of blaming your peers out in user-land. As far as performing poorly under network partitions, I'd love to hear more. That is our responsibility, and sounds like something we can/should fix.