an unclean server restart (i.e. a crash) can cause data to be lost or
corrupted.
+.TP
+.IR sync
+Reply to requests only after the changes have been committed to stable
+storage (see
+.IR async
+above).
+
In releases of nfs-utils upto and including 1.0.0, this option was the
default. In this and future releases,
.I sync
'''in the password file at startup time. If it isn't found, a uid and gid
.I exportfs
chooses a uid and gid
-of -2 (i.e. 65534) for squashed access. These values can also be overridden by
+of 65534 for squashed access. These values can also be overridden by
the
.IR anonuid " and " anongid
options.