diff --git a/reference/mongo/mongocollection/save.xml b/reference/mongo/mongocollection/save.xml
index 167c3c24ec..aec3a2b23e 100644
--- a/reference/mongo/mongocollection/save.xml
+++ b/reference/mongo/mongocollection/save.xml
@@ -47,7 +47,27 @@
           <literal>"safe"</literal>
          </para>
          <para>
-          Check that the save succeeded.
+          Can be a boolean or integer, defaults to &false;.  If &false;, the 
+          program continues executing without waiting for a database response. 
+          If &true;, the program will wait for the database response and throw a
+          <classname>MongoCursorException</classname> if the insert did not 
+          succeed.  
+         </para>
+         <para>
+          If <literal>safe</literal> is an integer, will replicate the
+          insert to that many machines before returning success (or throw an
+          exception if the replication times out, see wtimeout).  This overrides
+          the w variable set on the collection.
+         </para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+         <para>
+          <literal>"fsync"</literal>
+         </para>
+         <para>
+          Boolean, defaults to &false;.  Forces the insert to be synced to 
+          disk before returning success.  If &true;, a safe insert is implied
+          and will override setting <literal>safe</literal> to &false;.
          </para>
         </listitem>
        </itemizedlist>
@@ -61,7 +81,9 @@
  <refsect1 role="returnvalues">
   &reftitle.returnvalues;
   <para>
-   Returns if the object was saved.
+   If <parameter>safe</parameter> was set, returns an array containing the status of the save.
+   Otherwise, returns a boolean representing if the array was not empty (an empty array will not 
+   be inserted).
   </para>
  </refsect1>
 
@@ -71,6 +93,11 @@
    Throws <classname>MongoCursorException</classname> if the "safe" option is 
    set and the save fails.
   </para>
+  <para>
+   Throws <classname>MongoCursorTimeoutException</classname> if the "safe" 
+   option is set to a value greater than one and the database cannot replicate 
+   the operation in <literal>MongoCollection::$wtimeout</literal> milliseconds.
+  </para>
  </refsect1>
 
  <refsect1 role="changelog">
@@ -91,6 +118,13 @@
         Added "options" parameter.
        </entry>
       </row>
+      <row>
+       <entry>1.0.9</entry>
+       <entry>
+        Added ability to pass integers to "safe" options (only accepted booleans
+        before) and added "fsync" option.
+       </entry>
+      </row>
      </tbody>
     </tgroup>
    </informaltable>