diff --git a/fs/btrfs/delayed-inode.c b/fs/btrfs/delayed-inode.c
index 054577bddaf27869d9a524a73d4df5a76072e4e1..de4e70fb3cbbd4a5c28d13f1fe3aec16733ed49f 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/delayed-inode.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/delayed-inode.c
@@ -1857,6 +1857,14 @@ int btrfs_delayed_delete_inode_ref(struct inode *inode)
 {
 	struct btrfs_delayed_node *delayed_node;
 
+	/*
+	 * we don't do delayed inode updates during log recovery because it
+	 * leads to enospc problems.  This means we also can't do
+	 * delayed inode refs
+	 */
+	if (BTRFS_I(inode)->root->fs_info->log_root_recovering)
+		return -EAGAIN;
+
 	delayed_node = btrfs_get_or_create_delayed_node(inode);
 	if (IS_ERR(delayed_node))
 		return PTR_ERR(delayed_node);