Did you mean 'not remaining in metastable failure' ?

I was under the impression that once you learned how to pet the cat forwards (the non-triviality of getting to that point being an oft cited adoption barrier, but still), Riak was really quite excellent at recovering from things going wrong, which would fit with that being what you were trying to say.

Or maybe my guess has gone completely wide, in which case please do break out the small words and crayon drawings and explain what you actually meant :)