diff --git a/internal/fusefrontend/fs.go b/internal/fusefrontend/fs.go
index 0f3d940..e7c3903 100644
--- a/internal/fusefrontend/fs.go
+++ b/internal/fusefrontend/fs.go
@@ -164,7 +164,7 @@ func (fs *FS) Open(path string, flags uint32, context *fuse.Context) (fuseFile n
 // problem if the file permissions do not allow reading (i.e. 0200 permissions).
 // This function works around that problem by chmod'ing the file, obtaining a fd,
 // and chmod'ing it back.
-func (fs *FS) openWriteOnlyFile(dirfd int, cName string, newFlags int) (fuseFile nodefs.File, status fuse.Status) {
+func (fs *FS) openWriteOnlyFile(dirfd int, cName string, newFlags int) (*File, fuse.Status) {
 	woFd, err := syscallcompat.Openat(dirfd, cName, syscall.O_WRONLY|syscall.O_NOFOLLOW, 0)
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, fuse.ToStatus(err)