diff --git a/src/api/filesystem/async_io.rs b/src/api/filesystem/async_io.rs
index fdc846a4e..467526eec 100644
--- a/src/api/filesystem/async_io.rs
+++ b/src/api/filesystem/async_io.rs
@@ -618,7 +618,9 @@ pub trait AsyncFileSystem: FileSystem {
         /// the file system did not return a `Handle` from `opendir` then the contents of `handle` are
         /// undefined.
         ///
-        /// `size` indicates the maximum number of bytes that should be returned by this method.
+        /// `size` indicates the maximum number of bytes that should be returned by this method,
+        /// but can be ignored in practice. Instead, entries are returned by calling the
+        /// `add_entry` function until it returns zero (indicating that the buffer is full).
         ///
         /// If `offset` is non-zero then it corresponds to one of the `offset` values from a `DirEntry`
         /// that was previously returned by a call to `readdir` for the same handle. In this case the
@@ -659,7 +661,9 @@ pub trait AsyncFileSystem: FileSystem {
         /// the file system did not return a `Handle` from `opendir` then the contents of `handle` are
         /// undefined.
         ///
-        /// `size` indicates the maximum number of bytes that should be returned by this method.
+        /// `size` indicates the maximum number of bytes that should be returned by this method,
+        /// but can be ignored in practice. Instead, entries are returned by calling the
+        /// `add_entry` function until it returns zero (indicating that the buffer is full).
         ///
         /// Unlike `readdir`, the lookup count for `Inode`s associated with the returned directory
         /// entries **IS** affected by this method (since it returns an `Entry` for each `DirEntry`).
diff --git a/src/api/filesystem/sync_io.rs b/src/api/filesystem/sync_io.rs
index c3b7df43c..1c1fd5cdd 100644
--- a/src/api/filesystem/sync_io.rs
+++ b/src/api/filesystem/sync_io.rs
@@ -634,7 +634,9 @@ pub trait FileSystem {
     /// the file system did not return a `Handle` from `opendir` then the contents of `handle` are
     /// undefined.
     ///
-    /// `size` indicates the maximum number of bytes that should be returned by this method.
+    /// `size` indicates the maximum number of bytes that should be returned by this method,
+    /// but can be ignored in practice. Instead, entries are returned by calling the
+    /// `add_entry` function until it returns zero (indicating that the buffer is full).
     ///
     /// If `offset` is non-zero then it corresponds to one of the `offset` values from a `DirEntry`
     /// that was previously returned by a call to `readdir` for the same handle. In this case the
@@ -675,7 +677,10 @@ pub trait FileSystem {
     /// the file system did not return a `Handle` from `opendir` then the contents of `handle` are
     /// undefined.
     ///
-    /// `size` indicates the maximum number of bytes that should be returned by this method.
+    /// `size` indicates the maximum number of bytes that should be returned by this method,
+    /// but can be ignored in practice. Instead, entries are returned by calling the
+    /// `add_entry` function until it returns zero (indicating that the buffer is full).
+    ///
     ///
     /// Unlike `readdir`, the lookup count for `Inode`s associated with the returned directory
     /// entries **IS** affected by this method (since it returns an `Entry` for each `DirEntry`).