diff --git a/fuse/ipns/ipns_test.go b/fuse/ipns/ipns_test.go
index 25b3bf9f5..6b723e712 100644
--- a/fuse/ipns/ipns_test.go
+++ b/fuse/ipns/ipns_test.go
@@ -300,10 +300,12 @@ func TestFastRepublish(t *testing.T) {
 
 // Test writing a medium sized file one byte at a time
 func TestMultiWrite(t *testing.T) {
-	if runtime.GOOS == "darwin" {
-		link := "https://github.com/jbenet/go-ipfs/issues/147"
-		t.Skipf("Skipping as is broken in OSX. See %s", link)
-	}
+	/*
+		if runtime.GOOS == "darwin" {
+			link := "https://github.com/jbenet/go-ipfs/issues/147"
+			t.Skipf("Skipping as is broken in OSX. See %s", link)
+		}
+	*/
 
 	_, mnt := setupIpnsTest(t, nil)
 	defer mnt.Close()
diff --git a/fuse/ipns/ipns_unix.go b/fuse/ipns/ipns_unix.go
index f056b9974..5a795133d 100644
--- a/fuse/ipns/ipns_unix.go
+++ b/fuse/ipns/ipns_unix.go
@@ -232,6 +232,9 @@ func (s *Node) Attr() fuse.Attr {
 			log.Errorf("Error getting size of file: %s", err)
 			size = 0
 		}
+		if size == 0 {
+			size = s.dagMod.Size()
+		}
 		return fuse.Attr{
 			Mode:   0666,
 			Size:   size,
diff --git a/unixfs/io/dagmodifier.go b/unixfs/io/dagmodifier.go
index a05b9d6ed..4683a157e 100644
--- a/unixfs/io/dagmodifier.go
+++ b/unixfs/io/dagmodifier.go
@@ -173,6 +173,13 @@ func (dm *DagModifier) WriteAt(b []byte, offset uint64) (int, error) {
 	return origlen, nil
 }
 
+func (dm *DagModifier) Size() uint64 {
+	if dm == nil {
+		return 0
+	}
+	return dm.pbdata.GetFilesize()
+}
+
 // splitBytes uses a splitterFunc to turn a large array of bytes
 // into many smaller arrays of bytes
 func splitBytes(b []byte, spl chunk.BlockSplitter) [][]byte {