What is faultmasking explain?

Answer 1

When I first came upon this question I thought it referred to a particular practice in human interaction I find fairly odious. I would call this "blame shifting" instead of faultmasking and am including it here as your question was listed under "Relationships." Blame shifting, to me, is when a person (not me, who does not indulge in this behavior) is so terrified of punishment he will try and shift the responsibility for some stupid infraction of politesse or kindness or, say, not breaking things in the house onto whoever else is available. My opinion is that this sort of behavior is rooted in childhood fear, particularly that known in abusive households. While it is the responsibility of all adults to outgrow their childish behavior, I have found this particular rotten business possibly both too easy to understand--and too easy to excuse. But that is NOT the definition of "fault masking." Nor is fault masking a concept related to relationships. It is from the computer realm. Having answered this as its properly placed relationship question, I will quote an abbreviated Wikipedia to give you its computer-based definition: -----Types of fault tolerance Most fault-tolerant computer systems are designed to be able to handle several possible failures..... Hardware fault-tolerance is the most common application of these systems..... Typically, components have multiple backups and are separated into smaller "segments" that act to contain a fault, and extra redundancy is built into all physical connectors, power supplies, fans, etc. [2]. There are special software and instrumentation packages designed to detect failures, such as fault masking, which is a way to ignore faults by seamlessly preparing a backup component to execute something as soon as the instruction is sent, using a sort of voting protocol where if the main and backups don't give the same results, the flawed output is ignored.----- Hope one or both of these definitions helped.