diff --git a/sys/fs/fuse/fuse_io.c b/sys/fs/fuse/fuse_io.c
index 9a5e8387c3ba..60871175ada3 100644
--- a/sys/fs/fuse/fuse_io.c
+++ b/sys/fs/fuse/fuse_io.c
@@ -789,23 +789,7 @@ fuse_write_biobackend(struct vnode *vp, struct uio *uio,
 
 		vfs_bio_set_flags(bp, ioflag);
 
-		if (last_page) {
-			/* 
-			 * When writing the last page of a file we must write
-			 * synchronously.  If we didn't, then a subsequent
-			 * operation could extend the file, making the last
-			 * page of this buffer invalid because it would only be
-			 * partially cached.
-			 *
-			 * As an optimization, it would be allowable to only
-			 * write the last page synchronously.  Or, it should be
-			 * possible to synchronously flush the last
-			 * already-written page whenever extending a file with
-			 * ftruncate or another write.
-			 */
-			SDT_PROBE2(fusefs, , io, write_biobackend_issue, 1, bp);
-			err = bwrite(bp);
-		} else if (ioflag & IO_SYNC) {
+		if (ioflag & IO_SYNC) {
 			SDT_PROBE2(fusefs, , io, write_biobackend_issue, 2, bp);
 			err = bwrite(bp);
 		} else if (vm_page_count_severe() ||
diff --git a/tests/sys/fs/fusefs/notify.cc b/tests/sys/fs/fusefs/notify.cc
index da6417ed613f..4198c182178c 100644
--- a/tests/sys/fs/fusefs/notify.cc
+++ b/tests/sys/fs/fusefs/notify.cc
@@ -50,6 +50,18 @@ using namespace testing;
 
 class Notify: public FuseTest {
 public:
+/* Ignore an optional FUSE_FSYNC */
+void maybe_expect_fsync(uint64_t ino)
+{
+	EXPECT_CALL(*m_mock, process(
+		ResultOf([=](auto in) {
+			return (in.header.opcode == FUSE_FSYNC &&
+				in.header.nodeid == ino);
+		}, Eq(true)),
+		_)
+	).WillOnce(Invoke(ReturnErrno(0)));
+}
+
 void expect_lookup(uint64_t parent, const char *relpath, uint64_t ino,
 	off_t size, Sequence &seq)
 {
@@ -76,6 +88,7 @@ virtual void SetUp() {
 	int val = 0;
 	size_t size = sizeof(val);
 
+	m_async = true;
 	Notify::SetUp();
 	if (IsSkipped())
 		return;
@@ -363,8 +376,7 @@ TEST_F(Notify, inval_inode_with_clean_cache)
 	/* Deliberately leak fd.  close(2) will be tested in release.cc */
 }
 
-/* https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=238312 */
-TEST_F(NotifyWriteback, DISABLED_inval_inode_with_dirty_cache)
+TEST_F(NotifyWriteback, inval_inode_with_dirty_cache)
 {
 	const static char FULLPATH[] = "mountpoint/foo";
 	const static char RELPATH[] = "foo";
@@ -384,8 +396,14 @@ TEST_F(NotifyWriteback, DISABLED_inval_inode_with_dirty_cache)
 	fd = open(FULLPATH, O_RDWR);
 	ASSERT_EQ(bufsize, write(fd, CONTENTS, bufsize)) << strerror(errno);
 
-	/* Evict the data cache */
 	expect_write(ino, 0, bufsize, CONTENTS);
+	/* 
+	 * The FUSE protocol does not require an fsync here, but FreeBSD's
+	 * bufobj_invalbuf sends it anyway
+	 */
+	maybe_expect_fsync(ino);
+
+	/* Evict the data cache */
 	iia.mock = m_mock;
 	iia.ino = ino;
 	iia.off = 0;
@@ -398,8 +416,7 @@ TEST_F(NotifyWriteback, DISABLED_inval_inode_with_dirty_cache)
 	/* Deliberately leak fd.  close(2) will be tested in release.cc */
 }
 
-/* https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=238312 */
-TEST_F(NotifyWriteback, DISABLED_inval_inode_attrs_only)
+TEST_F(NotifyWriteback, inval_inode_attrs_only)
 {
 	const static char FULLPATH[] = "mountpoint/foo";
 	const static char RELPATH[] = "foo";
@@ -425,7 +442,7 @@ TEST_F(NotifyWriteback, DISABLED_inval_inode_attrs_only)
 	EXPECT_CALL(*m_mock, process(
 		ResultOf([=](auto in) {
 			return (in.header.opcode == FUSE_GETATTR &&
-				in.header.nodeid == FUSE_ROOT_ID);
+				in.header.nodeid == ino);
 		}, Eq(true)),
 		_)
 	).WillOnce(Invoke(ReturnImmediate([=](auto i __unused, auto& out) {
diff --git a/tests/sys/fs/fusefs/write.cc b/tests/sys/fs/fusefs/write.cc
index a35cf0d9ae8a..03364ca10e8b 100644
--- a/tests/sys/fs/fusefs/write.cc
+++ b/tests/sys/fs/fusefs/write.cc
@@ -90,6 +90,31 @@ void expect_write(uint64_t ino, uint64_t offset, uint64_t isize,
 	FuseTest::expect_write(ino, offset, isize, osize, 0, 0, contents);
 }
 
+/* Expect a write that may or may not come, depending on the cache mode */
+void maybe_expect_write(uint64_t ino, uint64_t offset, uint64_t size,
+	const void *contents)
+{
+	EXPECT_CALL(*m_mock, process(
+		ResultOf([=](auto in) {
+			const char *buf = (const char*)in.body.bytes +
+				sizeof(struct fuse_write_in);
+
+			return (in.header.opcode == FUSE_WRITE &&
+				in.header.nodeid == ino &&
+				in.body.write.offset == offset  &&
+				in.body.write.size == size &&
+				0 == bcmp(buf, contents, size));
+		}, Eq(true)),
+		_)
+	).Times(AtMost(1))
+	.WillRepeatedly(Invoke(
+		ReturnImmediate([=](auto in __unused, auto& out) {
+			SET_OUT_HEADER_LEN(out, write);
+			out.body.write.size = size;
+		})
+	));
+}
+
 };
 
 class WriteCacheable: public Write {
@@ -196,6 +221,14 @@ void expect_write(uint64_t ino, uint64_t offset, uint64_t isize,
 }
 };
 
+class WriteBackAsync: public WriteBack {
+public:
+virtual void SetUp() {
+	m_async = true;
+	WriteBack::SetUp();
+}
+};
+
 /* Tests for clustered writes with WriteBack cacheing */
 class WriteCluster: public WriteBack {
 public:
@@ -302,7 +335,7 @@ TEST_F(Write, append_to_cached)
 	expect_lookup(RELPATH, ino, oldsize);
 	expect_open(ino, 0, 1);
 	expect_read(ino, 0, oldsize, oldsize, oldcontents);
-	expect_write(ino, oldsize, BUFSIZE, BUFSIZE, CONTENTS);
+	maybe_expect_write(ino, oldsize, BUFSIZE, CONTENTS);
 
 	/* Must open O_RDWR or fuse(4) implicitly sets direct_io */
 	fd = open(FULLPATH, O_RDWR | O_APPEND);
@@ -610,7 +643,7 @@ TEST_F(Write, write_large)
 	expect_lookup(RELPATH, ino, 0);
 	expect_open(ino, 0, 1);
 	expect_write(ino, 0, halfbufsize, halfbufsize, contents);
-	expect_write(ino, halfbufsize, halfbufsize, halfbufsize,
+	maybe_expect_write(ino, halfbufsize, halfbufsize,
 		&contents[halfbufsize / sizeof(int)]);
 
 	fd = open(FULLPATH, O_WRONLY);
@@ -662,7 +695,7 @@ TEST_F(Write_7_8, write)
 }
 
 /* In writeback mode, dirty data should be written on close */
-TEST_F(WriteBack, close)
+TEST_F(WriteBackAsync, close)
 {
 	const char FULLPATH[] = "mountpoint/some_file.txt";
 	const char RELPATH[] = "some_file.txt";
@@ -795,7 +828,7 @@ TEST_F(WriteBack, rmw)
 	FuseTest::expect_lookup(RELPATH, ino, S_IFREG | 0644, fsize, 1);
 	expect_open(ino, 0, 1);
 	expect_read(ino, 0, fsize, fsize, INITIAL, O_WRONLY);
-	expect_write(ino, offset, bufsize, bufsize, CONTENTS);
+	maybe_expect_write(ino, offset, bufsize, CONTENTS);
 
 	fd = open(FULLPATH, O_WRONLY);
 	EXPECT_LE(0, fd) << strerror(errno);
@@ -808,7 +841,7 @@ TEST_F(WriteBack, rmw)
 /*
  * Without direct_io, writes should be committed to cache
  */
-TEST_F(WriteBack, writeback)
+TEST_F(WriteBack, cache)
 {
 	const char FULLPATH[] = "mountpoint/some_file.txt";
 	const char RELPATH[] = "some_file.txt";
@@ -867,6 +900,36 @@ TEST_F(WriteBack, o_direct)
 	/* Deliberately leak fd.  close(2) will be tested in release.cc */
 }
 
+/*
+ * When mounted with -o async, the writeback cache mode should delay writes
+ */
+TEST_F(WriteBackAsync, delay)
+{
+	const char FULLPATH[] = "mountpoint/some_file.txt";
+	const char RELPATH[] = "some_file.txt";
+	const char *CONTENTS = "abcdefgh";
+	uint64_t ino = 42;
+	int fd;
+	ssize_t bufsize = strlen(CONTENTS);
+
+	expect_lookup(RELPATH, ino, 0);
+	expect_open(ino, 0, 1);
+	/* Write should be cached, but FUSE_WRITE shouldn't be sent */
+	EXPECT_CALL(*m_mock, process(
+		ResultOf([=](auto in) {
+			return (in.header.opcode == FUSE_WRITE);
+		}, Eq(true)),
+		_)
+	).Times(0);
+
+	fd = open(FULLPATH, O_RDWR);
+	EXPECT_LE(0, fd) << strerror(errno);
+
+	ASSERT_EQ(bufsize, write(fd, CONTENTS, bufsize)) << strerror(errno);
+
+	/* Don't close the file because that would flush the cache */
+}
+
 /*
  * Without direct_io, writes should be committed to cache
  */