Is it safe to kill -KILL the node with hashstore?

[Alexey]

I actually never saw a KILL on my nodes, except the case when I attempted to migrate my server to Linux:

Moving from Windows to Ubuntu and back

Continuing the discussion from Moving the Node from Windows to Raspberry PI3: I would add my personal experience with NTFS on Linux. Due to the forced update of Windows 10 to the next release, my system became unstable: it crashed into BSOD, rolled back the update, but since this update is mandatory, Windows is updated to the next release, crashes to BSOD and everything repeats. After a day of such behavior and inability to prevent an upgrade, I decided to migrate to Linux, since this system …

It was so slow with NTFS, that even 300 seconds not always was enough.
Of course, if this server worked stable under Linux, it wouldn’t use NTFS.