diff --git a/fs/btrfs/ioctl.c b/fs/btrfs/ioctl.c
index 24fd75bb0f96..d2b53eb8a8c2 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/ioctl.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/ioctl.c
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ void btrfs_update_iflags(struct inode *inode)
 /*
  * Inherit flags from the parent inode.
  *
- * Unlike extN we don't have any flags we don't want to inherit currently.
+ * Currently only the compression flags and the cow flags are inherited.
  */
 void btrfs_inherit_iflags(struct inode *inode, struct inode *dir)
 {
@@ -128,12 +128,17 @@ void btrfs_inherit_iflags(struct inode *inode, struct inode *dir)
 
 	flags = BTRFS_I(dir)->flags;
 
-	if (S_ISREG(inode->i_mode))
-		flags &= ~BTRFS_INODE_DIRSYNC;
-	else if (!S_ISDIR(inode->i_mode))
-		flags &= (BTRFS_INODE_NODUMP | BTRFS_INODE_NOATIME);
+	if (flags & BTRFS_INODE_NOCOMPRESS) {
+		BTRFS_I(inode)->flags &= ~BTRFS_INODE_COMPRESS;
+		BTRFS_I(inode)->flags |= BTRFS_INODE_NOCOMPRESS;
+	} else if (flags & BTRFS_INODE_COMPRESS) {
+		BTRFS_I(inode)->flags &= ~BTRFS_INODE_NOCOMPRESS;
+		BTRFS_I(inode)->flags |= BTRFS_INODE_COMPRESS;
+	}
+
+	if (flags & BTRFS_INODE_NODATACOW)
+		BTRFS_I(inode)->flags |= BTRFS_INODE_NODATACOW;
 
-	BTRFS_I(inode)->flags = flags;
 	btrfs_update_iflags(inode);
 }