diff --git a/src/Illuminate/CachedRouting/Router.php b/src/Illuminate/CachedRouting/Router.php
index f7125203..b4e41d5f 100644
--- a/src/Illuminate/CachedRouting/Router.php
+++ b/src/Illuminate/CachedRouting/Router.php
@@ -85,8 +85,18 @@ public function cache($filename, Closure $callback, $cacheMinutes = 1440)
         $cacher = $this->getRouteCacher();
         $cacheKey = $this->getCacheKey($filename);
 
-        // Check if the current route group is cached.
-        if (($cache = $cacher->get($cacheKey)) !== null) {
+        // Route caching is best-effort: an unreadable/corrupt entry or an
+        // unwritable cache directory (e.g. permissions, or a torn write from
+        // concurrent boots after a deploy) must never break application boot.
+        // On any cache I/O failure we fall back to defining the routes directly.
+        $cache = null;
+        try {
+            $cache = $cacher->get($cacheKey);
+        } catch (\Throwable $e) {
+            // Treat an unreadable cache as a miss and rebuild below.
+        }
+
+        if ($cache !== null) {
             $this->routes->restoreRouteCache($cache);
         } else {
             // Back up current RouteCollection contents.
@@ -95,9 +105,13 @@ public function cache($filename, Closure $callback, $cacheMinutes = 1440)
             // Call closure to define routes that should be cached.
             call_user_func($callback, $this);
 
-            // Put routes in cache.
-            $cache = $this->routes->getCacheableRoutes();
-            $cacher->put($cacheKey, $cache, $cacheMinutes);
+            // Persist the routes, ignoring failures so a broken cache store
+            // never propagates out of boot (routes stay defined in memory).
+            try {
+                $cacher->put($cacheKey, $this->routes->getCacheableRoutes(), $cacheMinutes);
+            } catch (\Throwable $e) {
+                // Best-effort cache; a write failure is non-fatal.
+            }
 
             // And restore the routes that shouldn't be cached.
             $this->routes->restoreRouteCollection();
diff --git a/tests/CachedRouting/RoutingIntegrationTest.php b/tests/CachedRouting/RoutingIntegrationTest.php
index fa06ebb3..631e84f6 100755
--- a/tests/CachedRouting/RoutingIntegrationTest.php
+++ b/tests/CachedRouting/RoutingIntegrationTest.php
@@ -390,4 +390,48 @@ public function testCanClearCache(): void
         $router->clearCache(__FILE__);
         static::assertFalse($this->app->cache->has($key), 'Routes must no longer be cached');
     }
+
+    public function testRebuildsWhenCachedFileIsCorrupt(): void
+    {
+        $router = $this->getRouter();
+        $router->cache(__FILE__, function () use ($router) {
+            $router->get('/', 'HomeController@actionIndex');
+        });
+
+        // Simulate a torn/partial write: keep a far-future expiry prefix so the
+        // entry is not treated as expired, but leave an unserializable body.
+        foreach (glob(self::$cachePath . '/*/*/*') as $file) {
+            file_put_contents($file, '9999999999corrupt-payload');
+        }
+
+        $rebuilt = false;
+        $router = $this->getRouter();
+        $router->cache(__FILE__, function () use ($router, &$rebuilt) {
+            $rebuilt = true;
+            $router->get('/', 'HomeController@actionIndex');
+        });
+
+        static::assertTrue($rebuilt, 'Corrupt cache must trigger a rebuild, not a failure');
+        static::assertEquals(1, $router->getRoutes()->count(), 'Routes must be rebuilt from the callback');
+    }
+
+    public function testBootStillWorksWhenCacheIsUnwritable(): void
+    {
+        // Point the cache at a path that cannot be created (a file where a
+        // directory is expected), so the underlying write fails — mirroring an
+        // unwritable cache directory on a production node.
+        $files = new Filesystem;
+        $files->makeDirectory(self::$cachePath, 0777, true, true);
+        $blocker = self::$cachePath . '/blocker';
+        file_put_contents($blocker, 'x');
+        $this->app['config']['cache.path'] = $blocker . '/nested';
+
+        $router = $this->getRouter();
+        $key = $router->cache(__FILE__, function () use ($router) {
+            $router->get('/', 'HomeController@actionIndex');
+        });
+
+        static::assertNotNull($key, 'cache() must return normally despite the write failure');
+        static::assertEquals(1, $router->getRoutes()->count(), 'Routes must still be defined when caching fails');
+    }
 }