diff --git a/sys/fs/fuse/fuse_io.c b/sys/fs/fuse/fuse_io.c
index 595518d9879c..bfab67d20a81 100644
--- a/sys/fs/fuse/fuse_io.c
+++ b/sys/fs/fuse/fuse_io.c
@@ -541,8 +541,7 @@ fuse_write_directbackend(struct vnode *vp, struct uio *uio,
 		diff = fwi->size - fwo->size;
 		as_written_offset = uio->uio_offset - diff;
 
-		if (as_written_offset - diff > filesize &&
-		    fuse_data_cache_mode != FUSE_CACHE_UC)
+		if (as_written_offset - diff > filesize)
 			fuse_vnode_setsize(vp, as_written_offset);
 		if (as_written_offset - diff >= filesize)
 			fvdat->flag &= ~FN_SIZECHANGE;
diff --git a/tests/sys/fs/fusefs/write.cc b/tests/sys/fs/fusefs/write.cc
index df6ef36366f2..86a6831102f2 100644
--- a/tests/sys/fs/fusefs/write.cc
+++ b/tests/sys/fs/fusefs/write.cc
@@ -1041,8 +1041,8 @@ TEST_F(WriteThrough, writethrough)
 	/* Deliberately leak fd.  close(2) will be tested in release.cc */
 }
 
-/* With writethrough caching, writes update the cached file size */
-TEST_F(WriteThrough, update_file_size)
+/* Writes that extend a file should update the cached file size */
+TEST_F(Write, update_file_size)
 {
 	const char FULLPATH[] = "mountpoint/some_file.txt";
 	const char RELPATH[] = "some_file.txt";