If your servers are pooled in a compute cluster, the head node is the only crucial machine; the rest can start and stop and crash freely.

如果服务器部署在计算机集群中，那么最前端的节点是惟一的关键机器；其他机器可以随意启动和停止，崩溃了也不要紧。

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When a panic takes place, it brings the system to a stop (and thus can be considered a controlled crash).

当发生panic时，它将导致系统停止(因此可看成是一种可控制的崩溃)。

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No crash recovery is initiated, and the database remains inconsistent until a rollforward to the end of logs and stop/complete has been issued.

这里不会进行崩溃恢复，并且数据库将处于不一致状态，直到前滚到日志的最后并发出了 stop/complete。

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