diff --git a/handler/src/main/java/io/netty/handler/stream/ChunkedNioFile.java b/handler/src/main/java/io/netty/handler/stream/ChunkedNioFile.java
index be0696955dd..ec3e4115f15 100644
--- a/handler/src/main/java/io/netty/handler/stream/ChunkedNioFile.java
+++ b/handler/src/main/java/io/netty/handler/stream/ChunkedNioFile.java
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@
 import java.io.File;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.RandomAccessFile;
+import java.nio.channels.ClosedChannelException;
 import java.nio.channels.FileChannel;
 
 /**
@@ -100,9 +101,8 @@ public ChunkedNioFile(FileChannel in, long offset, long length, int chunkSize) t
                     "chunkSize: " + chunkSize +
                     " (expected: a positive integer)");
         }
-
-        if (offset != 0) {
-            in.position(offset);
+        if (!in.isOpen()) {
+            throw new ClosedChannelException();
         }
         this.in = in;
         this.chunkSize = chunkSize;
@@ -160,7 +160,7 @@ public ByteBuf readChunk(ByteBufAllocator allocator) throws Exception {
         try {
             int readBytes = 0;
             for (;;) {
-                int localReadBytes = buffer.writeBytes(in, chunkSize - readBytes);
+                int localReadBytes = buffer.writeBytes(in, offset + readBytes, chunkSize - readBytes);
                 if (localReadBytes < 0) {
                     break;
                 }
diff --git a/handler/src/test/java/io/netty/handler/stream/ChunkedWriteHandlerTest.java b/handler/src/test/java/io/netty/handler/stream/ChunkedWriteHandlerTest.java
index 59dbf7ebba2..010d98851a1 100644
--- a/handler/src/test/java/io/netty/handler/stream/ChunkedWriteHandlerTest.java
+++ b/handler/src/test/java/io/netty/handler/stream/ChunkedWriteHandlerTest.java
@@ -26,13 +26,17 @@
 import io.netty.channel.embedded.EmbeddedChannel;
 import io.netty.util.CharsetUtil;
 import io.netty.util.ReferenceCountUtil;
+import org.junit.Assert;
 import org.junit.Test;
 
 import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;
 import java.io.File;
 import java.io.FileOutputStream;
 import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.RandomAccessFile;
 import java.nio.channels.Channels;
+import java.nio.channels.ClosedChannelException;
+import java.nio.channels.FileChannel;
 import java.util.concurrent.CountDownLatch;
 import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicBoolean;
 import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicInteger;
@@ -102,6 +106,41 @@ public void testChunkedNioFile() throws IOException {
         check(new ChunkedNioFile(TMP), new ChunkedNioFile(TMP), new ChunkedNioFile(TMP));
     }
 
+    @Test
+    public void testChunkedNioFileLeftPositionUnchanged() throws IOException {
+        FileChannel in = null;
+        final long expectedPosition = 10;
+        try {
+            in = new RandomAccessFile(TMP, "r").getChannel();
+            in.position(expectedPosition);
+            check(new ChunkedNioFile(in) {
+                @Override
+                public void close() throws Exception {
+                    //no op
+                }
+            });
+            Assert.assertTrue(in.isOpen());
+            Assert.assertEquals(expectedPosition, in.position());
+        } finally {
+            if (in != null) {
+                in.close();
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    @Test(expected = ClosedChannelException.class)
+    public void testChunkedNioFileFailOnClosedFileChannel() throws IOException {
+        final FileChannel in = new RandomAccessFile(TMP, "r").getChannel();
+        in.close();
+        check(new ChunkedNioFile(in) {
+            @Override
+            public void close() throws Exception {
+                //no op
+            }
+        });
+        Assert.fail();
+    }
+
     @Test
     public void testUnchunkedData() throws IOException {
         check(Unpooled.wrappedBuffer(BYTES));