Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by jamwt 4010 days ago
Depends on what you mean by safety. "People may die" safety, no; but "data may be lost, existential risk to business" safety, yes. Dropbox is writing a block storage engine in it.
1 comments

I go by what I thought was the accepted definition, which is a failure or error presenting a risk for temporary or permanent harm to people. Financial risk like data loss would fall under mission critical.