diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/dir.c b/fs/ocfs2/dir.c
index 91a7e85..8b48e9b 100644
--- a/fs/ocfs2/dir.c
+++ b/fs/ocfs2/dir.c
@@ -2957,6 +2957,7 @@
 		ocfs2_init_dir_trailer(dir, dirdata_bh, i);
 	}
 
+	ocfs2_update_inode_fsync_trans(handle, dir, 1);
 	ocfs2_journal_dirty(handle, dirdata_bh);
 
 	if (ocfs2_supports_indexed_dirs(osb) && !dx_inline) {
@@ -3338,6 +3339,7 @@
 	} else {
 		de->rec_len = cpu_to_le16(sb->s_blocksize);
 	}
+	ocfs2_update_inode_fsync_trans(handle, dir, 1);
 	ocfs2_journal_dirty(handle, new_bh);
 
 	dir_i_size += dir->i_sb->s_blocksize;
@@ -3896,6 +3898,7 @@
 		dquot_free_space_nodirty(dir,
 				ocfs2_clusters_to_bytes(dir->i_sb, 1));
 
+	ocfs2_update_inode_fsync_trans(handle, dir, 1);
 	ocfs2_commit_trans(osb, handle);
 
 out:
@@ -4134,6 +4137,7 @@
 		mlog_errno(ret);
 	did_quota = 0;
 
+	ocfs2_update_inode_fsync_trans(handle, dir, 1);
 	ocfs2_journal_dirty(handle, dx_root_bh);
 
 out_commit: