diff --git a/tests/config/install.sh b/tests/config/install.sh
index 94ad55504a8..ba6ba0cd07c 100755
--- a/tests/config/install.sh
+++ b/tests/config/install.sh
@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ ln -sf $SRC_PATH/users.d/opentelemetry.xml $DEST_SERVER_PATH/users.d/
 ln -sf $SRC_PATH/users.d/remote_queries.xml $DEST_SERVER_PATH/users.d/
 ln -sf $SRC_PATH/users.d/session_log_test.xml $DEST_SERVER_PATH/users.d/
 ln -sf $SRC_PATH/users.d/memory_profiler.xml $DEST_SERVER_PATH/users.d/
+ln -sf $SRC_PATH/users.d/no_fsync_metadata.xml $DEST_SERVER_PATH/users.d/
 
 # FIXME DataPartsExchange may hang for http_send_timeout seconds
 # when nobody is going to read from the other side of socket (due to "Fetching of part was cancelled"),
diff --git a/tests/config/users.d/no_fsync_metadata.xml b/tests/config/users.d/no_fsync_metadata.xml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..6b9d69927f8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/config/users.d/no_fsync_metadata.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+<clickhouse>
+    <profiles>
+        <default>
+            <!-- Sometimes we see that pretty simple queries like
+                 CREATE DATABASE can take > 30 seconds.
+                 Let's try to disable fsync.
+             -->
+            <fsync_metadata>false</fsync_metadata>
+        </default>
+    </profiles>
+</clickhouse>