Not only that, but in order to build a fault tolerant system you __WANT__ your components to fail fast and hard. Anything else runs the risk of your system doi

Not only that, but in order to build a fault tolerant system you __WANT__ your components to fail fast and hard. Anything else runs the risk of your system doing the wrong thing while you have no idea it's happening. failing is noisy, it's a very clear signal to the system to pay attention.