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by jimktrains2 2799 days ago
early?

> This interpretation hinges on interpreting successful sub-majority writes as not necessarily successful: rather, a successful response is merely a suggestion that the write has probably occurred, or might later occur, or perhaps will occur, be visible to some clients, then un-occur, or perhaps nothing will happen whatsoever.

> We note that this remains MongoDB's default level of write safety.

- http://jepsen.io/analyses/mongodb-3-6-4

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So a user selects the write safety level they wish. Ok.