Status: IN
The gossip membership lifecycle correctly detects and removes crashed hint-holding nodes, but this membership-layer correctness masks data-layer failure: hints stored on the crashed node are permanently lost with no recovery mechanism or error indication, and the cluster reports the failure as handled because the membership event was processed successfully.
Correct membership lifecycle handling creates false confidence that the failure was fully handled when data was silently lost
Depends on (SL): gossip-dead-node-lifecycle-is-comprehensive, hinted-handoff-hint-loss-is-silent-data-loss