diff --git a/fs/ext3/ialloc.c b/fs/ext3/ialloc.c
index 5655fbcbd11f564b82c31eea45a6c8fe33b41f58..ba9186a21d1edff66d332815dacafd59483ee5d3 100644
--- a/fs/ext3/ialloc.c
+++ b/fs/ext3/ialloc.c
@@ -559,7 +559,7 @@ struct inode *ext3_new_inode(handle_t *handle, struct inode * dir, int mode)
 	ei->i_dir_start_lookup = 0;
 	ei->i_disksize = 0;
 
-	ei->i_flags = EXT3_I(dir)->i_flags & ~EXT3_INDEX_FL;
+	ei->i_flags = EXT3_I(dir)->i_flags & EXT3_FL_INHERITED;
 	if (S_ISLNK(mode))
 		ei->i_flags &= ~(EXT3_IMMUTABLE_FL|EXT3_APPEND_FL);
 	/* dirsync only applies to directories */
diff --git a/include/linux/ext3_fs.h b/include/linux/ext3_fs.h
index d14f029184832bd300ad7856c7cacbe467101c5d..b745619a9b8e9fecb993e47f5ee2fcf0596888cd 100644
--- a/include/linux/ext3_fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/ext3_fs.h
@@ -178,6 +178,13 @@ struct ext3_group_desc
 #define EXT3_FL_USER_VISIBLE		0x0003DFFF /* User visible flags */
 #define EXT3_FL_USER_MODIFIABLE		0x000380FF /* User modifiable flags */
 
+/* Flags that should be inherited by new inodes from their parent. */
+#define EXT3_FL_INHERITED (EXT3_SECRM_FL | EXT3_UNRM_FL | EXT3_COMPR_FL |\
+			   EXT3_SYNC_FL | EXT3_IMMUTABLE_FL | EXT3_APPEND_FL |\
+			   EXT3_NODUMP_FL | EXT3_NOATIME_FL | EXT3_COMPRBLK_FL|\
+			   EXT3_NOCOMPR_FL | EXT3_JOURNAL_DATA_FL |\
+			   EXT3_NOTAIL_FL | EXT3_DIRSYNC_FL)
+
 /*
  * Inode dynamic state flags
  */