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by Retric 3700 days ago
Some aircraft have landed without all their wings.

Fail fast is fine for a dating app, it's not acceptable for a antilock breaking system. As to disk IO they should have kept a redundant disk for backup just in case. Remember a program can generally spend 0.05 seconds waiting and no big deal. A program that takes 300 seconds to reboot is far worse.