diff --git a/src/add-ons/kernel/file_systems/bfs/Inode.cpp b/src/add-ons/kernel/file_systems/bfs/Inode.cpp
index d1a7e65aba..a33e44293f 100644
--- a/src/add-ons/kernel/file_systems/bfs/Inode.cpp
+++ b/src/add-ons/kernel/file_systems/bfs/Inode.cpp
@@ -2037,6 +2037,9 @@ Inode::Sync()
 	// We may also want to flush the attribute's data stream to
 	// disk here... (do we?)
 
+	if (IsSymLink() && (Flags() & INODE_LONG_SYMLINK) == 0)
+		return B_OK;
+
 	data_stream *data = &Node().data;
 	status_t status = B_OK;