diff --git a/Library/DiscUtils.SquashFs/Directory.cs b/Library/DiscUtils.SquashFs/Directory.cs
index c9aaaedeb..1a8f79971 100644
--- a/Library/DiscUtils.SquashFs/Directory.cs
+++ b/Library/DiscUtils.SquashFs/Directory.cs
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ public IReadOnlyDictionary<string, DirectoryEntry> AllEntries
                 var reader = Context.DirectoryReader;
                 reader.SetPosition(_dirInode.StartBlock, _dirInode.Offset);
 
-                // For some reason, always 3 greater than actual..
+                // The 3 additional bytes are for ".." and "."
                 while (reader.DistanceFrom(_dirInode.StartBlock, _dirInode.Offset) < _dirInode.FileSize - 3)
                 {
                     var header = DirectoryHeader.ReadFrom(reader);
diff --git a/Library/DiscUtils.SquashFs/MetablockReader.cs b/Library/DiscUtils.SquashFs/MetablockReader.cs
index 62c7869e5..55e973e4f 100644
--- a/Library/DiscUtils.SquashFs/MetablockReader.cs
+++ b/Library/DiscUtils.SquashFs/MetablockReader.cs
@@ -55,11 +55,57 @@ public void SetPosition(long blockStart, int blockOffset)
         _currentBlockStart = blockStart;
         _currentOffset = blockOffset;
     }
-
+    
+    /// <summary>
+    /// Calculates the distance between the current position and the specified block position and offset.
+    /// </summary>
+    /// <remarks>
+    /// * BlockStart is always related to the start of the metablock in the raw data stream
+    /// * BlockOffset is the offset within the uncompressed data stream!
+    ///
+    /// This means, that there can never be a distance calculation based on start and offset
+    /// across block boundaries
+    ///
+    /// Therefor to calculate the distance across block boundaries we need to iteratively read
+    /// through all blocks from the starting block to the current block.
+    ///
+    /// In most (standard) cases everything will be within the same block and the calculation is trivial.
+    /// </remarks>
+    /// <param name="blockStart">The start of the metadatablock with the raw data</param>
+    /// <param name="blockOffset">The offset within the uncompressed block</param>
+    /// <returns>The distance between </returns>
+    /// <exception cref="ArgumentOutOfRangeException"></exception>
     public long DistanceFrom(long blockStart, int blockOffset)
     {
-        return (_currentBlockStart - blockStart) * VfsSquashFileSystemReader.MetadataBufferSize
-               + (_currentOffset - blockOffset);
+        if (blockStart > _currentBlockStart)
+        {
+            throw new ArgumentOutOfRangeException("Block start needs to be less than or equal to current block start");
+        }
+        
+        if (blockStart == _currentBlockStart)
+        {
+            return _currentOffset - blockOffset;
+        }
+        
+        var block = _context.ReadMetaBlock(_start + blockStart);
+        long distance = Metablock.SQUASHFS_METADATA_SIZE - blockOffset;
+        
+        do
+        {
+            block = _context.ReadMetaBlock(block.NextBlockStart);
+            blockStart = block.Position - _start;
+
+            if (blockStart == _currentBlockStart)
+            {
+                distance += _currentOffset;
+            }
+            else
+            {
+                distance += block.Data.LongLength;
+            }
+        } while (blockStart != _currentBlockStart);
+
+        return distance;
     }
 
     public void Skip(int count)
diff --git a/Library/DiscUtils.SquashFs/VfsSquashFileSystemReader.cs b/Library/DiscUtils.SquashFs/VfsSquashFileSystemReader.cs
index bd58ceec3..aac64b615 100644
--- a/Library/DiscUtils.SquashFs/VfsSquashFileSystemReader.cs
+++ b/Library/DiscUtils.SquashFs/VfsSquashFileSystemReader.cs
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ internal class VfsSquashFileSystemReader : VfsReadOnlyFileSystem<DirectoryEntry,
     public override bool IsCaseSensitive => true;
 
     public const int MetadataBufferSize = 8 * 1024;
+    public const short BlockPrefixSize = 2;
     private readonly BlockCache<Block> _blockCache;
 
     private readonly Context _context;
@@ -272,7 +273,7 @@ private Metablock ReadMetaBlock(long pos)
         var stream = _context.RawStream;
         stream.Position = pos;
 
-        Span<byte> buffer = stackalloc byte[2];
+        Span<byte> buffer = stackalloc byte[BlockPrefixSize];
         stream.ReadExactly(buffer);
 
         int readLen = EndianUtilities.ToUInt16LittleEndian(buffer);
@@ -283,7 +284,7 @@ private Metablock ReadMetaBlock(long pos)
             readLen = Metablock.SQUASHFS_COMPRESSED_BIT;
         }
 
-        block.NextBlockStart = pos + readLen + 2;
+        block.NextBlockStart = pos + BlockPrefixSize + readLen;
 
         if (isCompressed)
         {