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  2. DOCS-11447

Documentation of "linearizable" read concern misstates writeConcernMajorityJournalDefault:false behavior

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      The documentation of linearizable read concern contains the following incorrect statement:

      With `writeConcernMajorityJournalDefault` set to false, MongoDB will not wait for `w: "majority"` writes to be durable before acknowledging the writes. As such, "majority" write operations could possibly roll back in the event of a loss of a replica set member.

      But this is not quite right. Rather, the last sentence of the above paragraph should read:

      As such, "majority" write operations could possibly roll back in the event of a transient loss (e.g. crash and restart) of a majority of nodes in a given replica set.

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            ravind.kumar Ravind Kumar (Inactive)
            schwerin@mongodb.com Andy Schwerin
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