From 7f9f45a9eee19ac8179c8e20b74b7b9a03eb000c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bob Grabar Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2012 14:36:30 -0400 Subject: [PATCH 1/2] DOCS-249-related: change to write concern glossary entry --- source/reference/glossary.txt | 9 +++++---- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/source/reference/glossary.txt b/source/reference/glossary.txt index 905bd9f6e97..717973e06be 100644 --- a/source/reference/glossary.txt +++ b/source/reference/glossary.txt @@ -588,10 +588,11 @@ Glossary nodes have :term:`eventual consistency`. write concern - A setting on writes to MongoDB that allows the user to specify, - how the database will handle a write operation before - returning. This often determines how many :term:`replica set` - members should propagate a write before returning. + Specifies whether a write operation has succeeded. Write concern + allows your application to detect insertion errors or unavailable + :program:`mongod` instances. For :term:`replica sets `, you can configure write concern to confirm replication to a + specified number of members. .. seealso:: :ref:`Write Concern for Replica Sets `. From 38b73ad4e0dbef46effdc01fc830563a2a3728e3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bob Grabar Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2012 14:38:56 -0400 Subject: [PATCH 2/2] DOCS-249-related: delete fsync glossary entry --- source/reference/glossary.txt | 4 ---- 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/source/reference/glossary.txt b/source/reference/glossary.txt index 717973e06be..57e7d137109 100644 --- a/source/reference/glossary.txt +++ b/source/reference/glossary.txt @@ -366,10 +366,6 @@ Glossary migration of :term:`chunks `. Administrators must disable the balancer for all maintenance operations on a sharded cluster. - fsync - A system call that flushes all dirty, in-memory pages to disk. MongoDB - calls ``fsync()`` every 60 seconds. - chunk In the context of a :term:`sharded cluster`, a chunk is a contiguous range of :term:`shard key` values assigned to a particular :term:`shard`.