Filestash developer here. It's the first time I hear about anyone having reliability issue with Filestash, can you provide more details about the issues you've run into as without specific examples, it’s difficult to identify and fix any potential problem.
The default search is indeed a recursive because not everyone fully understand that creating a full text search index come with downloading potentially a lot of data and if you use a storage like S3 which charge a lot for bandwidth could cause some large billing issues ....
Filestash developer here. It's the first time I hear about anyone having reliability issue with Filestash, can you provide more details about the issues you've run into as without specific examples, it’s difficult to identify and fix any potential problem.
Regarding full-text search: There are multiple approaches. One such implementation is open-sourced and available here: https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/filestash/tree/master/server/plugin/plg_search_sqlitefts
The default search is indeed a recursive because not everyone fully understand that creating a full text search index come with downloading potentially a lot of data and if you use a storage like S3 which charge a lot for bandwidth could cause some large billing issues ....