Not sure if this is a mislabeling or wrong counters being incremented, but running a WT test, I see this in serverStatus:
"MMAPV1Journal" : { "acquireCount" : { "r" : NumberLong(8), "w" : NumberLong(28760) } },
I see it in server status outputs going back to pre rc9, but until this run I've never seen it go up.