diff --git a/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/common/blobstore/fs/FsBlobContainer.java b/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/common/blobstore/fs/FsBlobContainer.java
index 12889ea7e33b0..42965d49003de 100644
--- a/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/common/blobstore/fs/FsBlobContainer.java
+++ b/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/common/blobstore/fs/FsBlobContainer.java
@@ -34,6 +34,8 @@
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.InputStream;
 import java.io.OutputStream;
+import java.nio.channels.Channels;
+import java.nio.channels.SeekableByteChannel;
 import java.nio.file.DirectoryStream;
 import java.nio.file.FileAlreadyExistsException;
 import java.nio.file.FileVisitResult;
@@ -142,11 +144,15 @@ public void deleteBlobsIgnoringIfNotExists(List<String> blobNames) throws IOExce
         IOUtils.rm(blobNames.stream().map(path::resolve).toArray(Path[]::new));
     }
 
+    private InputStream bufferedInputStream(InputStream inputStream) {
+        return new BufferedInputStream(inputStream, blobStore.bufferSizeInBytes());
+    }
+
     @Override
     public InputStream readBlob(String name) throws IOException {
         final Path resolvedPath = path.resolve(name);
         try {
-            return new BufferedInputStream(Files.newInputStream(resolvedPath), blobStore.bufferSizeInBytes());
+            return bufferedInputStream(Files.newInputStream(resolvedPath));
         } catch (FileNotFoundException fnfe) {
             throw new NoSuchFileException("[" + name + "] blob not found");
         }
@@ -154,10 +160,12 @@ public InputStream readBlob(String name) throws IOException {
 
     @Override
     public InputStream readBlob(String blobName, long position, long length) throws IOException {
-        final InputStream inputStream = readBlob(blobName);
-        long skipped = inputStream.skip(position); // NORELEASE
-        assert skipped == position;
-        return org.elasticsearch.common.io.Streams.limitStream(inputStream, length);
+        final SeekableByteChannel channel = Files.newByteChannel(path.resolve(blobName));
+        if (position > 0L) {
+            channel.position(position);
+        }
+        assert channel.position() == position;
+        return bufferedInputStream(org.elasticsearch.common.io.Streams.limitStream(Channels.newInputStream(channel), length));
     }
 
     @Override
diff --git a/server/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/common/blobstore/fs/FsBlobContainerTests.java b/server/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/common/blobstore/fs/FsBlobContainerTests.java
index c603eda906cae..8e9bc382cb842 100644
--- a/server/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/common/blobstore/fs/FsBlobContainerTests.java
+++ b/server/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/common/blobstore/fs/FsBlobContainerTests.java
@@ -18,14 +18,78 @@
  */
 package org.elasticsearch.common.blobstore.fs;
 
+import org.apache.lucene.mockfile.FilterFileSystemProvider;
+import org.apache.lucene.mockfile.FilterSeekableByteChannel;
+import org.apache.lucene.util.LuceneTestCase;
+import org.elasticsearch.common.blobstore.BlobPath;
+import org.elasticsearch.common.io.PathUtils;
+import org.elasticsearch.common.io.PathUtilsForTesting;
+import org.elasticsearch.common.io.Streams;
+import org.elasticsearch.common.settings.Settings;
+import org.elasticsearch.core.internal.io.IOUtils;
 import org.elasticsearch.test.ESTestCase;
+import org.junit.After;
+import org.junit.Before;
+
+import java.io.FilterInputStream;
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.InputStream;
+import java.nio.ByteBuffer;
+import java.nio.channels.SeekableByteChannel;
+import java.nio.file.FileSystem;
+import java.nio.file.Files;
+import java.nio.file.OpenOption;
+import java.nio.file.Path;
+import java.nio.file.attribute.FileAttribute;
+import java.nio.file.spi.FileSystemProvider;
+import java.util.Locale;
+import java.util.Set;
+import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicLong;
+import java.util.function.Consumer;
 
 import static org.hamcrest.Matchers.containsString;
+import static org.hamcrest.Matchers.equalTo;
 import static org.hamcrest.Matchers.is;
 import static org.hamcrest.Matchers.startsWith;
 
+@LuceneTestCase.SuppressFileSystems("*") // we do our own mocking
 public class FsBlobContainerTests extends ESTestCase {
 
+    final AtomicLong totalBytesRead = new AtomicLong(0);
+    FileSystem fileSystem = null;
+
+    @Before
+    public void setupMockFileSystems() {
+        FileSystemProvider fileSystemProvider = new MockFileSystemProvider(PathUtils.getDefaultFileSystem(), totalBytesRead::addAndGet);
+        fileSystem = fileSystemProvider.getFileSystem(null);
+        PathUtilsForTesting.installMock(fileSystem); // restored by restoreFileSystem in ESTestCase
+    }
+
+    @After
+    public void closeMockFileSystems() throws IOException {
+        IOUtils.close(fileSystem);
+    }
+
+    public void testReadBlobRangeCorrectlySkipBytes() throws IOException {
+        final String blobName = randomAlphaOfLengthBetween(1, 20).toLowerCase(Locale.ROOT);
+        final byte[] blobData = randomByteArrayOfLength(randomIntBetween(1, frequently() ? 512 : 1 << 20)); // rarely up to 1mb
+
+        final Path path = PathUtils.get(createTempDir().toString());
+        Files.write(path.resolve(blobName), blobData);
+
+        final FsBlobContainer container = new FsBlobContainer(new FsBlobStore(Settings.EMPTY, path, false), BlobPath.cleanPath(), path);
+        assertThat(totalBytesRead.get(), equalTo(0L));
+
+        final long start = randomLongBetween(0L, Math.max(0L, blobData.length - 1));
+        final long length = randomLongBetween(1L, blobData.length - start);
+
+        try (InputStream stream = container.readBlob(blobName, start, length)) {
+            assertThat(totalBytesRead.get(), equalTo(0L));
+            assertThat(Streams.consumeFully(stream), equalTo(length));
+            assertThat(totalBytesRead.get(), equalTo(length));
+        }
+    }
+
     public void testTempBlobName() {
         final String blobName = randomAlphaOfLengthBetween(1, 20);
         final String tempBlobName = FsBlobContainer.tempBlobName(blobName);
@@ -37,4 +101,48 @@ public void testIsTempBlobName() {
         final String tempBlobName = FsBlobContainer.tempBlobName(randomAlphaOfLengthBetween(1, 20));
         assertThat(FsBlobContainer.isTempBlobName(tempBlobName), is(true));
     }
+
+    static class MockFileSystemProvider extends FilterFileSystemProvider {
+
+        final Consumer<Long> onRead;
+
+        MockFileSystemProvider(FileSystem inner, Consumer<Long> onRead) {
+            super("mockfs://", inner);
+            this.onRead = onRead;
+        }
+
+        private int onRead(int read) {
+            if (read != -1) {
+                onRead.accept((long) read);
+            }
+            return read;
+        }
+
+        @Override
+        public SeekableByteChannel newByteChannel(Path path, Set<? extends OpenOption> opts, FileAttribute<?>... attrs) throws IOException {
+            return new FilterSeekableByteChannel(super.newByteChannel(path, opts, attrs)) {
+                @Override
+                public int read(ByteBuffer dst) throws IOException {
+                    return onRead(super.read(dst));
+                }
+            };
+        }
+
+        @Override
+        public InputStream newInputStream(Path path, OpenOption... opts) throws IOException {
+            // no super.newInputStream(path, opts) as it will use the delegating FileSystem to open a SeekableByteChannel
+            // and instead we want the mocked newByteChannel() method to be used
+            return new FilterInputStream(delegate.newInputStream(path, opts)) {
+                @Override
+                public int read() throws IOException {
+                    return onRead(super.read());
+                }
+
+                @Override
+                public int read(byte[] b, int off, int len) throws IOException {
+                    return onRead(super.read(b, off, len));
+                }
+            };
+        }
+    }
 }