To clarify, we've had lots of region server crashes, mostly due to our own data model and generally not as a result of any intrinsic fault of HBase. To my knowl

To clarify, we've had lots of region server crashes, mostly due to our own data model and generally not as a result of any intrinsic fault of HBase. To my knowledge, not many of these (any?) have actually resulted in a total HBase failure. The system generally degrades as it should.