diff --git a/example/passthrough_hp.cc b/example/passthrough_hp.cc
index 1f6647f..c393f04 100644
--- a/example/passthrough_hp.cc
+++ b/example/passthrough_hp.cc
@@ -214,6 +214,16 @@ static void sfs_init(void *userdata, fuse_conn_info *conn) {
     /* This is a local file system - no network coherency needed */
     fuse_set_feature_flag(conn, FUSE_CAP_DIRECT_IO_ALLOW_MMAP);
 
+    /* Disable NFS export support, which also disabled name_to_handle_at.
+     * Goal is to make xfstests that test name_to_handle_at to fail with
+     * the right error code (EOPNOTSUPP) than to open_by_handle_at to fail with
+     * ESTALE and let those test fail.
+     * Perfect NFS export support is not possible with this FUSE filesystem needs
+     * more kernel work, in order to passthrough nfs handle encode/decode to
+     * fuse-server/daemon.
+     */
+    fuse_set_feature_flag(conn, FUSE_CAP_NO_EXPORT_SUPPORT);
+
     /* Disable the receiving and processing of FUSE_INTERRUPT requests */
     conn->no_interrupt = 1;
 }
diff --git a/example/printcap.c b/example/printcap.c
index bbbc1b8..01b4d3f 100644
--- a/example/printcap.c
+++ b/example/printcap.c
@@ -88,7 +88,9 @@ static void pc_init(void *userdata,
 	if(conn->capable & FUSE_CAP_HANDLE_KILLPRIV_V2)
 			printf("\tFUSE_CAP_HANDLE_KILLPRIV_V2\n");
 	if(conn->capable & FUSE_CAP_DIRECT_IO_ALLOW_MMAP)
-			printf("\tFUSE_CAP_DIRECT_IO_ALLOW_MMAP\n");
+		printf("\tFUSE_CAP_DIRECT_IO_ALLOW_MMAP\n");
+	if (conn->capable & FUSE_CAP_NO_EXPORT_SUPPORT)
+		printf("\tFUSE_CAP_NO_EXPORT_SUPPORT\n");
 	fuse_session_exit(se);
 }
 
diff --git a/include/fuse_common.h b/include/fuse_common.h
index 1abac5a..85f0b23 100644
--- a/include/fuse_common.h
+++ b/include/fuse_common.h
@@ -494,6 +494,14 @@ struct fuse_loop_config_v1 {
  */
 #define FUSE_CAP_PASSTHROUGH      (1 << 29)
 
+/**
+ * Indicates that the file system cannot handle NFS export
+ *
+ * If this flag is set NFS export and name_to_handle_at
+ * is not going to work at all and will fail with EOPNOTSUPP.
+ */
+#define FUSE_CAP_NO_EXPORT_SUPPORT  (1 << 30)
+
 /**
  * Ioctl flags
  *
diff --git a/lib/fuse_lowlevel.c b/lib/fuse_lowlevel.c
index 220a263..35dc3ca 100644
--- a/lib/fuse_lowlevel.c
+++ b/lib/fuse_lowlevel.c
@@ -2081,6 +2081,8 @@ void do_init(fuse_req_t req, fuse_ino_t nodeid, const void *inarg)
 			se->conn.capable |= FUSE_CAP_EXPIRE_ONLY;
 		if (inargflags & FUSE_PASSTHROUGH)
 			se->conn.capable |= FUSE_CAP_PASSTHROUGH;
+		if (inargflags & FUSE_NO_EXPORT_SUPPORT)
+			se->conn.capable |= FUSE_CAP_NO_EXPORT_SUPPORT;
 	} else {
 		se->conn.max_readahead = 0;
 	}
@@ -2217,6 +2219,8 @@ void do_init(fuse_req_t req, fuse_ino_t nodeid, const void *inarg)
 		 */
 		outarg.max_stack_depth = se->conn.max_backing_stack_depth + 1;
 	}
+	if (se->conn.want & FUSE_CAP_NO_EXPORT_SUPPORT)
+		outargflags |= FUSE_NO_EXPORT_SUPPORT;
 
 	if (inargflags & FUSE_INIT_EXT) {
 		outargflags |= FUSE_INIT_EXT;