diff --git a/src/parse/memparse.js b/src/parse/memparse.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..88c70ab
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/parse/memparse.js
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+"use strict";
+
+const parseIECBytes = require("./bytes/iec");
+
+/* NOTE: This parsing module is for a special case; values that are normally handled using the Linux kernel's `memparse` function (which parses memory suffixes like K, M, G, etc.) but that do *not* semantically represent bytes. */
+
+module.exports = function parseMemparseValue(value) {
+	return parseIECBytes(value).toB().amount;
+};
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/parse/mount-options.js b/src/parse/mount-options.js
index 6e1c7b4..bd732aa 100644
--- a/src/parse/mount-options.js
+++ b/src/parse/mount-options.js
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ const {minutes, seconds, microseconds} = require("../units/time");
 const mapValue = require("../map-value");
 const parseOctalMode = require("./octal-mode");
 const parseIECBytes = require("./bytes/iec");
+const parseMemparseValue = require("./memparse");
 const matchOrError = require("../match-or-error");
 
 let Value = (value) => value;
@@ -381,7 +382,7 @@ let mountOptionMap = {
 				return { minimumSize: parseIECBytes(value) };
 			}
 		},
-		nr_inodes: { maximumInodes: (value) => parseIECBytes(value) },
+		nr_inodes: { maximumInodes: (value) => parseMemparseValue(value) },
 	},
 	cgroup: {
 		/* TODO */