diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/disks/chapter.xml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/disks/chapter.xml
index 92fcfe2adb..51031ba145 100644
--- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/disks/chapter.xml
+++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/disks/chapter.xml
@@ -3187,16 +3187,15 @@ Device          1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity
 	    acknowledges data arrival, but before actually storing the
 	    data.  The data on the remote node will be stored directly
 	    after sending the acknowledgement.  This mode is intended
-	    to reduce latency, but still provides good
-	    reliability.</para>
+	    to reduce latency, but still provides good reliability.
+	    This mode is the default.</para>
 	</listitem>
 
 	<listitem>
 	  <para><emphasis>fullsync</emphasis>: This mode reports a
 	    write operation as completed when both the local write and
 	    the remote write complete.  This is the safest and the
-	    slowest replication mode.  This mode is the
-	    default.</para>
+	    slowest replication mode.</para>
 	</listitem>
 
 	<listitem>