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by ShabbyDoo 5021 days ago
The author doesn't mention if he had called getLastError after inserting data:

http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/getLastError+Command

The MongoDB "way" is that clients know the importance of their data and can choose write strategies which make the proper trade-off between insertion throughput/latency and durability/consistency.