dirty guestfish scripts that forget to sync will work just fine, which
can make this very puzzling if you are trying to debug a problem.
+Update: Autosync is enabled by default for all API users starting from
+libguestfs 1.5.24.
+
=item Mount option C<-o sync> should not be the default.
If you use L</guestfs_mount>, then C<-o sync,noatime> are added