diff --git a/fs/btrfs/tree-log.c b/fs/btrfs/tree-log.c
index 0d9613c..aaa2e2b 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/tree-log.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/tree-log.c
@@ -3805,6 +3805,7 @@
 	int ret = 0;
 	struct btrfs_root *root;
 	struct dentry *old_parent = NULL;
+	struct inode *orig_inode = inode;
 
 	/*
 	 * for regular files, if its inode is already on disk, we don't
@@ -3824,7 +3825,14 @@
 	}
 
 	while (1) {
-		BTRFS_I(inode)->logged_trans = trans->transid;
+		/*
+		 * If we are logging a directory then we start with our inode,
+		 * not our parents inode, so we need to skipp setting the
+		 * logged_trans so that further down in the log code we don't
+		 * think this inode has already been logged.
+		 */
+		if (inode != orig_inode)
+			BTRFS_I(inode)->logged_trans = trans->transid;
 		smp_mb();
 
 		if (BTRFS_I(inode)->last_unlink_trans > last_committed) {