Ferret Usability

Guys,

I am new to Ferret- I have mixed feeling about this thing. On one side
I really like the simplicity of the system- its easy to deploy and
used, and I have a lot of choices on integration from aaf or doing my
own isn’t too hard too. On the other hand, I heard a lot of horrible
stories from index corruption to segfaults. The most classical thread
I can find is here:

http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-deployment/browse_thread/thread/980fe7cb20cb97dd

Even Ezra@EY is basically saying Ferret is unusable. May I know how’s
the situation now? Anyone can nail down what actually had happened on
their segfaults/index corruption?