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- Failfast
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Similar to failstop, but it also concedes that the stopping may not be instantaneous and that stopping quickly may be good enough. Sometimes, watchdog timers are employed as a mechanism to achieve failfast behavior.
- Failstop
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In practice, a component should be internally checking its own correct operation; upon detecting an error in itself, it should stop its execution before it has a chance to corrupt data or propagate errors to other components outside itself. The concept that a component either executes completely correctly or it halts.
- Failure fencing
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Closely related to failstop and fault containment. A method to ensure that a faulty component cannot propagate errors or failure. Surviving components prevent the defective component ...
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