MongoDB GridFS for HA file storage

I am working on a project where I need to store many user uploaded files and provide redundancy. For file uploads, I was first considering to place user uploaded files in a NFS "uploads" directory and use Gearman to grab the file, move it to it's permanent storage locations, the开发者_JAVA百科n update MySQL with the files info (filesize, date...etc).

Now that I have learned of MongoDB's GridFS, I am thinking this may be a better approach than NFS & Gearman. With GridFS, I don't need NFS and the redundancy is built in - but I would be putting a lot of trust into MongoDB.

With this all said, I was wondering if anyone had any thoughts? Does anyone know of a large deployment of GridFS? I know many people are using MongoDB for NoSQL, but I have not found many references to GridFS deployments.

Thanks!

We're using GridFS for one of our projects. I'm also using gearman to distribute the job queue so that clients don't have to wait for a file to finish uploading. Once the user hits submit, php sends the job to gearman and then I have "workers" that do the inserting into MongoDB.

You can also check out MogileFS, which is a distributed storage system.