diff --git a/src/util/virfile.c b/src/util/virfile.c
index a49bc30eb2..e09992e41a 100644
--- a/src/util/virfile.c
+++ b/src/util/virfile.c
@@ -3468,18 +3468,14 @@ static int
 virFileIsSharedFixFUSE(const char *path,
                        long long *f_type)
 {
-    char *dirpath = NULL;
-    const char **mounts = NULL;
-    size_t nmounts = 0;
-    char *p;
     FILE *f = NULL;
     struct mntent mb;
     char mntbuf[1024];
+    char *mntDir = NULL;
+    char *mntType = NULL;
+    size_t maxMatching = 0;
     int ret = -1;
 
-    if (VIR_STRDUP(dirpath, path) < 0)
-        return -1;
-
     if (!(f = setmntent(PROC_MOUNTS, "r"))) {
         virReportSystemError(errno,
                              _("Unable to open %s"),
@@ -3488,43 +3484,36 @@ virFileIsSharedFixFUSE(const char *path,
     }
 
     while (getmntent_r(f, &mb, mntbuf, sizeof(mntbuf))) {
-        if (STRNEQ("fuse.glusterfs", mb.mnt_type))
+        const char *p;
+        size_t len = strlen(mb.mnt_dir);
+
+        if (!(p = STRSKIP(path, mb.mnt_dir)))
             continue;
 
-        if (VIR_APPEND_ELEMENT_COPY(mounts, nmounts, mb.mnt_dir) < 0)
-            goto cleanup;
+        if (*(p - 1) != '/' && *p != '/' && *p != '\0')
+            continue;
+
+        if (len > maxMatching) {
+            maxMatching = len;
+            VIR_FREE(mntType);
+            VIR_FREE(mntDir);
+            if (VIR_STRDUP(mntDir, mb.mnt_dir) < 0 ||
+                VIR_STRDUP(mntType, mb.mnt_type) < 0)
+                goto cleanup;
+        }
     }
 
-    /* Add NULL sentinel so that this is a virStringList */
-    if (VIR_REALLOC_N(mounts, nmounts + 1) < 0)
-        goto cleanup;
-    mounts[nmounts] = NULL;
-
-    do {
-        if ((p = strrchr(dirpath, '/')) == NULL) {
-            virReportSystemError(EINVAL,
-                                 _("Invalid relative path '%s'"), path);
-            goto cleanup;
-        }
-
-        if (p == dirpath)
-            *(p+1) = '\0';
-        else
-            *p = '\0';
-
-        if (virStringListHasString(mounts, dirpath)) {
-            VIR_DEBUG("Found gluster FUSE mountpoint=%s for path=%s. "
-                      "Fixing shared FS type", dirpath, path);
-            *f_type = GFS2_MAGIC;
-            break;
-        }
-    } while (p != dirpath);
+    if (STREQ_NULLABLE(mntType, "fuse.glusterfs")) {
+        VIR_DEBUG("Found gluster FUSE mountpoint=%s for path=%s. "
+                  "Fixing shared FS type", mntDir, path);
+        *f_type = GFS2_MAGIC;
+    }
 
     ret = 0;
  cleanup:
+    VIR_FREE(mntType);
+    VIR_FREE(mntDir);
     endmntent(f);
-    VIR_FREE(mounts);
-    VIR_FREE(dirpath);
     return ret;
 }
 
diff --git a/tests/virfiledata/mounts3.txt b/tests/virfiledata/mounts3.txt
index 226f67dc00..134c6e8f81 100644
--- a/tests/virfiledata/mounts3.txt
+++ b/tests/virfiledata/mounts3.txt
@@ -31,3 +31,5 @@ hugetlbfs /hugepages2M hugetlbfs rw,relatime,mode=1777,pagesize=2M 0 0
 none /run/user/1000 tmpfs rw,relatime,mode=700,uid=1000 0 0
 host:/nfs /nfs nfs4 rw,relatime,vers=4.1,rsize=1048576,wsize=1048576,namlen=255,hard,proto=tcp6,timeo=600,retrans=2,sec=sys,clientaddr=::,local_lock=none,addr=:: 0 0
 dev /nfs/blah devtmpfs rw,nosuid,relatime,size=10240k,nr_inodes=4093060,mode=755 0 0
+host:/gv0 /gluster fuse.glusterfs rw 0 0
+root@host:/tmp/mkdir /gluster/sshfs fuse.sshfs rw 0 0
diff --git a/tests/virfiletest.c b/tests/virfiletest.c
index 42d918aecc..d5102b1cc4 100644
--- a/tests/virfiletest.c
+++ b/tests/virfiletest.c
@@ -454,6 +454,8 @@ mymain(void)
     DO_TEST_FILE_IS_SHARED_FS_TYPE("mounts2.txt", "/run/user/501/gvfs/some/file", false);
     DO_TEST_FILE_IS_SHARED_FS_TYPE("mounts3.txt", "/nfs/file", true);
     DO_TEST_FILE_IS_SHARED_FS_TYPE("mounts3.txt", "/nfs/blah", false);
+    DO_TEST_FILE_IS_SHARED_FS_TYPE("mounts3.txt", "/gluster/file", true);
+    DO_TEST_FILE_IS_SHARED_FS_TYPE("mounts3.txt", "/gluster/sshfs/file", false);
 
     return ret != 0 ? EXIT_FAILURE : EXIT_SUCCESS;
 }