diff --git a/sys/fs/tmpfs/tmpfs.h b/sys/fs/tmpfs/tmpfs.h
index fad97acac069..1c6d7146d758 100644
--- a/sys/fs/tmpfs/tmpfs.h
+++ b/sys/fs/tmpfs/tmpfs.h
@@ -387,6 +387,9 @@ struct tmpfs_mount {
 	 * tmpfs_pool.c. */
 	uma_zone_t		tm_dirent_pool;
 	uma_zone_t		tm_node_pool;
+
+	/* Read-only status. */
+	int			tm_ronly;
 };
 #define TMPFS_LOCK(tm) mtx_lock(&(tm)->allnode_lock)
 #define TMPFS_UNLOCK(tm) mtx_unlock(&(tm)->allnode_lock)
diff --git a/sys/fs/tmpfs/tmpfs_vfsops.c b/sys/fs/tmpfs/tmpfs_vfsops.c
index 96d7321e6b49..a08dafa5739d 100644
--- a/sys/fs/tmpfs/tmpfs_vfsops.c
+++ b/sys/fs/tmpfs/tmpfs_vfsops.c
@@ -82,6 +82,10 @@ static const char *tmpfs_opts[] = {
 	NULL
 };
 
+static const char *tmpfs_updateopts[] = {
+	"from", "export", NULL
+};
+
 /* --------------------------------------------------------------------- */
 
 static int
@@ -150,12 +154,13 @@ tmpfs_mount(struct mount *mp)
 		return (EINVAL);
 
 	if (mp->mnt_flag & MNT_UPDATE) {
-		/*
-		 * Only support update mounts for NFS export.
-		 */
-		if (vfs_flagopt(mp->mnt_optnew, "export", NULL, 0))
-			return (0);
-		return (EOPNOTSUPP);
+		/* Only support update mounts for certain options. */
+		if (vfs_filteropt(mp->mnt_optnew, tmpfs_updateopts) != 0)
+			return (EOPNOTSUPP);
+		if (vfs_flagopt(mp->mnt_optnew, "ro", NULL, 0) !=
+		    ((struct tmpfs_mount *)mp->mnt_data)->tm_ronly)
+			return (EOPNOTSUPP);
+		return (0);
 	}
 
 	vn_lock(mp->mnt_vnodecovered, LK_SHARED | LK_RETRY);
@@ -228,6 +233,7 @@ tmpfs_mount(struct mount *mp)
 	    tmpfs_node_ctor, tmpfs_node_dtor,
 	    tmpfs_node_init, tmpfs_node_fini,
 	    UMA_ALIGN_PTR, 0);
+	tmp->tm_ronly = (mp->mnt_flag & MNT_RDONLY) != 0;
 
 	/* Allocate the root node. */
 	error = tmpfs_alloc_node(tmp, VDIR, root_uid,