diff --git a/sys/fs/fuse/fuse_internal.c b/sys/fs/fuse/fuse_internal.c
index 5f39f8ced798..e87456ce1fc4 100644
--- a/sys/fs/fuse/fuse_internal.c
+++ b/sys/fs/fuse/fuse_internal.c
@@ -353,12 +353,8 @@ fuse_internal_readdir(struct vnode *vp,
 		fri = fdi.indata;
 		fri->fh = fufh->fh_id;
 		fri->offset = uio_offset(uio);
-		/*
-		 * XXX AWS Try removing the min(...,4096).  I'm pretty sure
-		 * there's no reason for it to be there.
-		 */
-		fri->size = min(uio_resid(uio), 4096);
-		/* mp->max_read */
+		fri->size = MIN(uio->uio_resid,
+		    fuse_get_mpdata(vp->v_mount)->max_read);
 
 		    if ((err = fdisp_wait_answ(&fdi))) {
 			break;
diff --git a/tests/sys/fs/fusefs/readdir.cc b/tests/sys/fs/fusefs/readdir.cc
index 13387bf8d567..09d7034f23f3 100644
--- a/tests/sys/fs/fusefs/readdir.cc
+++ b/tests/sys/fs/fusefs/readdir.cc
@@ -187,6 +187,40 @@ TEST_F(Readdir, eio)
 	/* Deliberately leak dir.  RELEASEDIR will be tested separately */
 }
 
+/* getdirentries(2) can use a larger buffer size than readdir(3) */
+TEST_F(Readdir, getdirentries)
+{
+	const char FULLPATH[] = "mountpoint/some_dir";
+	const char RELPATH[] = "some_dir";
+	uint64_t ino = 42;
+	int fd;
+	char buf[8192];
+	ssize_t r;
+
+	expect_lookup(RELPATH, ino);
+	expect_opendir(ino);
+
+	EXPECT_CALL(*m_mock, process(
+		ResultOf([=](auto in) {
+			return (in->header.opcode == FUSE_READDIR &&
+				in->header.nodeid == ino &&
+				in->body.readdir.size == 8192);
+		}, Eq(true)),
+		_)
+	).WillOnce(Invoke(ReturnImmediate([=](auto in __unused, auto out) {
+		out->header.error = 0;
+		out->header.len = sizeof(out->header);
+	})));
+
+	errno = 0;
+	fd = open(FULLPATH, O_DIRECTORY);
+	ASSERT_LE(0, fd) << strerror(errno);
+	r = getdirentries(fd, buf, sizeof(buf), 0);
+	ASSERT_EQ(0, r);
+
+	/* Deliberately leak dir.  RELEASEDIR will be tested separately */
+}
+
 /*
  * FUSE_READDIR returns nothing, not even "." and "..".  This is legal, though
  * the filesystem obviously won't be fully functional.