I personally don't fault the author too much for his tone, because I understand his situation (been there, done that). Something like this is on the verge (and

I personally don't fault the author too much for his tone, because I understand his situation (been there, done that). Something like this is on the verge (and probably over) of being unacceptable. In inherited a project with MongoDB as well and even though I haven't run in to many problems except for MongoDB 2.0.x (debian wheezy) removing the journal file somewhere during a shutdown but only removing the lock file later, which can and does lead to a race condition and a database that refuses to start up unless removing the lockfile manually)... I sincerely hold my heart I don't run into things like this. Luckily Mongo is only used for some kind of persistent object storage for a PHP webapp. (the db is all of 10MB...).