diff --git a/UPDATING b/UPDATING
index 71a7de51c624..99914f3837a3 100644
--- a/UPDATING
+++ b/UPDATING
@@ -37,9 +37,9 @@ NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FreeBSD 13.x IS SLOW:
 	been removed from mount_fusefs(8).  You can safely remove them from
 	your scripts, because they had no effect.
 
-	The vfs.fusefs.fix_broken_io sysctl has been removed.  If you felt the
-	need to set it to a non-default value, please tell asomers@FreeBSD.org
-	why.
+	The vfs.fusefs.fix_broken_io and vfs.fusefs.sync_resize sysctls have
+	been removed.  If you felt the need to set either to a non-default
+	value, please tell asomers@FreeBSD.org why.
 
 20190507:
 	The IPSEC option has been removed from GENERIC.  Users requiring
diff --git a/share/man/man5/fusefs.5 b/share/man/man5/fusefs.5
index bc4a8c3c5fe0..2d7c2e12881f 100644
--- a/share/man/man5/fusefs.5
+++ b/share/man/man5/fusefs.5
@@ -105,7 +105,6 @@ misbehaving.
 .\" vfs.fusefs.iov_credit: I don't understand it well enough
 .\" vfs.fusefs.iov_permanent_bufsize: I don't understand it well enough
 .\" vfs.fusefs.fix_broken_io: I don't understand it well enough
-.\" vfs.fusefs.sync_resize: useless and should be removed
 .\" vfs.fusefs.refresh_size: probably useless?
 .\" vfs.fusefs.mmap_enable: why is this optional?
 .\" vfs.fusefs.data_cache_invalidate: what is this needed for?
diff --git a/sys/fs/fuse/fuse_io.c b/sys/fs/fuse/fuse_io.c
index 9b7b152cc596..72532daa0602 100644
--- a/sys/fs/fuse/fuse_io.c
+++ b/sys/fs/fuse/fuse_io.c
@@ -709,7 +709,7 @@ fuse_write_biobackend(struct vnode *vp, struct uio *uio,
 			break;
 	} while (uio->uio_resid > 0 && n > 0);
 
-	if (fuse_sync_resize && (fvdat->flag & FN_SIZECHANGE) != 0)
+	if ((fvdat->flag & FN_SIZECHANGE) != 0)
 		fuse_vnode_savesize(vp, cred, pid);
 
 	return (err);
diff --git a/sys/fs/fuse/fuse_ipc.h b/sys/fs/fuse/fuse_ipc.h
index a288acc4584b..73401ba8069b 100644
--- a/sys/fs/fuse/fuse_ipc.h
+++ b/sys/fs/fuse/fuse_ipc.h
@@ -231,7 +231,6 @@ enum fuse_data_cache_mode {
 extern int fuse_data_cache_mode;
 extern int fuse_data_cache_invalidate;
 extern int fuse_mmap_enable;
-extern int fuse_sync_resize;
 
 static inline struct fuse_data *
 fuse_get_mpdata(struct mount *mp)
diff --git a/sys/fs/fuse/fuse_node.c b/sys/fs/fuse/fuse_node.c
index 8bf5693d6480..bc2c8f43101b 100644
--- a/sys/fs/fuse/fuse_node.c
+++ b/sys/fs/fuse/fuse_node.c
@@ -135,13 +135,6 @@ SYSCTL_INT(_vfs_fusefs, OID_AUTO, refresh_size, CTLFLAG_RW,
     "If non-zero, and no dirty file extension data is buffered, fetch file "
     "size before write operations");
 
-int	fuse_sync_resize = 1;
-
-SYSCTL_INT(_vfs_fusefs, OID_AUTO, sync_resize, CTLFLAG_RW,
-    &fuse_sync_resize, 0,
-    "If a cached write extended a file, inform FUSE filesystem of the changed"
-    "size immediately subsequent to the issued writes");
-
 static int
 sysctl_fuse_cache_mode(SYSCTL_HANDLER_ARGS)
 {