I'd be thrilled if instead you would contribute on the GlusterFS project, which provides a FUSE layer to a distributed file system with no single source of fail

I'd be thrilled if instead you would contribute on the GlusterFS project, which provides a FUSE layer to a distributed file system with no single source of failure. It has plugin ('translators') to enable HA, NUMFA, etc. It's a very interesting project, but unfortunately hasn't seen as much press lately.