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diff --git a/fs/bcachefs/io_write.c b/fs/bcachefs/io_write.c
index 613f38436640..4eb0eda723ab 100644
--- a/fs/bcachefs/io_write.c
+++ b/fs/bcachefs/io_write.c
@@ -202,6 +202,17 @@ static inline int bch2_extent_update_i_size_sectors(struct btree_trans *trans,
struct btree_iter iter;
struct bkey_i *k;
struct bkey_i_inode_v3 *inode;
+ /*
+ * Crazy performance optimization:
+ * Every extent update needs to also update the inode: the inode trigger
+ * will set bi->journal_seq to the journal sequence number of this
+ * transaction - for fsync.
+ *
+ * But if that's the only reason we're updating the inode (we're not
+ * updating bi_size or bi_sectors), then we don't need the inode update
+ * to be journalled - if we crash, the bi_journal_seq update will be
+ * lost, but that's fine.
+ */
unsigned inode_update_flags = BTREE_UPDATE_NOJOURNAL;
int ret;