diff --git a/fsspec/implementations/dbfs.py b/fsspec/implementations/dbfs.py
index d6ca450ab..137558918 100644
--- a/fsspec/implementations/dbfs.py
+++ b/fsspec/implementations/dbfs.py
@@ -118,6 +118,7 @@ def makedirs(self, path, exist_ok=True):
                 raise FileExistsError(e.message)
 
             raise e
+        self.invalidate_cache(self._parent(path))
 
     def mkdir(self, path, create_parents=True, **kwargs):
         """
@@ -163,6 +164,7 @@ def rm(self, path, recursive=False):
                 raise OSError(e.message)
 
             raise e
+        self.invalidate_cache(self._parent(path))
 
     def mv(self, source_path, destination_path, recursive=False, maxdepth=None):
         """
@@ -205,6 +207,8 @@ def mv(self, source_path, destination_path, recursive=False, maxdepth=None):
                 raise FileExistsError(e.message)
 
             raise e
+        self.invalidate_cache(self._parent(source_path))
+        self.invalidate_cache(self._parent(destination_path))
 
     def _open(self, path, mode="rb", block_size="default", **kwargs):
         """
@@ -364,6 +368,13 @@ def _get_data(self, path, start, end):
 
             raise e
 
+    def invalidate_cache(self, path=None):
+        if path is None:
+            self.dircache.clear()
+        else:
+            self.dircache.pop(path, None)
+        super().invalidate_cache(path)
+
 
 class DatabricksFile(AbstractBufferedFile):
     """
diff --git a/fsspec/implementations/tests/cassettes/test_dbfs_write_and_read.yaml b/fsspec/implementations/tests/cassettes/test_dbfs_write_and_read.yaml
index 54c943a9e..9a1e65c53 100644
--- a/fsspec/implementations/tests/cassettes/test_dbfs_write_and_read.yaml
+++ b/fsspec/implementations/tests/cassettes/test_dbfs_write_and_read.yaml
@@ -670,4 +670,47 @@ interactions:
     status:
       code: 200
       message: OK
+- request:
+    body: '{"path": "/FileStore/"}'
+    headers:
+      Accept:
+      - '*/*'
+      Accept-Encoding:
+      - gzip, deflate
+      Connection:
+      - keep-alive
+      Content-Length:
+      - '23'
+      Content-Type:
+      - application/json
+      User-Agent:
+      - python-requests/2.25.1
+      authorization:
+      - DUMMY
+    method: GET
+    uri: https://my_instance.com/api/2.0/dbfs/list
+  response:
+    body:
+      string: !!binary |
+        H4sIAAAAAAAEAxzLQQqAIBAF0Lv8tZFBRHqALtAyQqKUBjJDx0VFdy/aPng3HG02QQ83jolXaJTd
+        Jz2HaEt/FomzcxCgZBaK0ByzFX8yiS4LLQV8WMjRPDGF3TD5T6umqltVK9VKKZ/xeQEAAP//AwC1
+        7zK3aAAAAA==
+    headers:
+      content-encoding:
+      - gzip
+      content-type:
+      - application/json
+      server:
+      - databricks
+      strict-transport-security:
+      - max-age=31536000; includeSubDomains; preload
+      transfer-encoding:
+      - chunked
+      vary:
+      - Accept-Encoding
+      x-content-type-options:
+      - nosniff
+    status:
+      code: 200
+      message: OK
 version: 1
diff --git a/fsspec/spec.py b/fsspec/spec.py
index 1e039fee3..354972939 100644
--- a/fsspec/spec.py
+++ b/fsspec/spec.py
@@ -340,7 +340,7 @@ def _ls_from_cache(self, path):
         """
         parent = self._parent(path)
         if path.rstrip("/") in self.dircache:
-            return self.dircache[path]
+            return self.dircache[path.rstrip("/")]
         try:
             files = [
                 f
diff --git a/fsspec/tests/test_spec.py b/fsspec/tests/test_spec.py
index f5f8fc076..dc71f3ee2 100644
--- a/fsspec/tests/test_spec.py
+++ b/fsspec/tests/test_spec.py
@@ -57,19 +57,21 @@ def __getitem__(self, name):
                 return item
         raise IndexError("{name} not found!".format(name=name))
 
-    def ls(self, path, detail=True, **kwargs):
-        path = self._strip_protocol(path)
-
-        files = {
-            file["name"]: file
-            for file in self._fs_contents
-            if path == self._parent(file["name"])
-        }
+    def ls(self, path, detail=True, refresh=True, **kwargs):
+        if kwargs.pop("strip_proto", True):
+            path = self._strip_protocol(path)
+
+        files = not refresh and self._ls_from_cache(path)
+        if not files:
+            files = [
+                file for file in self._fs_contents if path == self._parent(file["name"])
+            ]
+            files.sort(key=lambda file: file["name"])
+            self.dircache[path.rstrip("/")] = files
 
         if detail:
-            return [files[name] for name in sorted(files)]
-
-        return list(sorted(files))
+            return files
+        return [file["name"] for file in files]
 
     @classmethod
     def get_test_paths(cls, start_with=""):
@@ -296,6 +298,23 @@ def test_json():
     assert DummyTestFS.from_json(outb) is b
 
 
+def test_ls_from_cache():
+    fs = DummyTestFS()
+    uncached_results = fs.ls("top_level/second_level/", refresh=True)
+
+    assert fs.ls("top_level/second_level/", refresh=False) == uncached_results
+
+    # _strip_protocol removes everything by default though
+    # for the sake of testing the _ls_from_cache interface
+    # directly, we need run one time more without that call
+    # to actually verify that our stripping in the client
+    # function works.
+    assert (
+        fs.ls("top_level/second_level/", refresh=False, strip_proto=False)
+        == uncached_results
+    )
+
+
 @pytest.mark.parametrize(
     "dt",
     [
diff --git a/tox.ini b/tox.ini
index 42df3940f..d8d52ad8c 100644
--- a/tox.ini
+++ b/tox.ini
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ conda_deps=
     {[core]conda_deps}
     httpretty
     aiobotocore
-    moto
+    "moto<2.0"
     flask
 changedir=.tox/s3fs/tmp
 whitelist_externals=