&gt; As I understand it, in this hypothetical case, the majority of the system would work fine if 3 nodes fail, but there could also be some percentage of transactions which are unfulfillable due to this scenario while there should be many that can still be answered with confidence. ( if I&#x27;m understanding correctly that data does not go into every node with a configuration like this and is consistently hashed across )<p>Yes, you understand it perfectly. :)<p>&gt; Ultimately it sounds like it&#x27;s headed in a good path and embracing this partial-fail-but-that-doesn&#x27;t-mean-show-is-over with specifics is a good thing to get ironed out and would certainly be a key thing to get right early, even if it&#x27;s largely semantics and client behavior.<p>Indeed. Semantics are very important and I want to make sure GoshawkDB is easy to understand and reason about at all times.