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by freehunter 5105 days ago
In addition to dictating our choice of failure types, our use of crash logs has two additional consequences. First, we observe only failures that cause system crashes, and not a broader class of failures that includes application crashes or non-crash errors. Second, we cannot observe failures due to permanent faults, since a machine with a permanent, crash-inducing fault would be unable to recover to produce, record, and transmit a crash log.

They only include systems that have had a hard crash or a stop error.