&gt; When the disk is plugged back in, it should be able to restart without any problems. But I think that&#x27;s a different kind of resiliency than what you&#x27;re referring to.<p>Yes and no.  I was referring to restarting internally when the error condition went away but restarting the app and waiting for telemetry to return can be a valid solution.<p>Think of your torrent software.  If you crank your firewall to block it while it&#x27;s running it will not crash.  If your disk fills up it won&#x27;t crash.  When the network comes back or more drive space if freed it will restart it&#x27;s internal mechanisms.  You wouldn&#x27;t want it to restart in these conditions.  If it runs out of memory however choosing to exit might be the best recovery mechanism.<p>I think a life critical medical application can at least strive for internal restart and do an external restart if all else failed.  The article stated they had to reboot the machine to get it back.  Now that&#x27;s way worse.<p>&gt; The situation in the article seems closer to hardware failure than a design oversight.<p>Hardware failure is almost always a permanent condition.  This was a &quot;my I&#x2F;O stopped briefly and would have came back if my code could handle it&quot;.