diff --git a/src/bun.js/node/node_fs.zig b/src/bun.js/node/node_fs.zig
index b1beeb9add..1ac5b31702 100644
--- a/src/bun.js/node/node_fs.zig
+++ b/src/bun.js/node/node_fs.zig
@@ -504,12 +504,6 @@ pub const AsyncReaddirRecursiveTask = struct {
                     is_root,
                 )) {
                     .err => |err| {
-                        // readdir() should never fail with 'ELOOP: Too many levels of symbolic links'
-                        if (err.getErrno() == .LOOP) {
-                            this.writeResults(ResultType, &entries);
-                            return;
-                        }
-
                         for (entries.items) |*item| {
                             switch (ResultType) {
                                 bun.String => item.deref(),
@@ -4973,8 +4967,6 @@ pub const NodeFS = struct {
                         // This is different than what Node does, at the time of writing.
                         // Node doesn't gracefully handle errors like these. It fails the entire operation.
                         .NOENT, .NOTDIR, .PERM => continue,
-                        // readdir() should never fail with 'ELOOP: Too many levels of symbolic links'
-                        .LOOP => continue,
                         else => {
                             const path_parts = [_]string{ args.path.slice(), basename };
                             return .{
diff --git a/test/js/node/fs/fixtures/readdir-loop/a/b/c/d/e/f b/test/js/node/fs/fixtures/readdir-loop/a/b/c/d/e/f
deleted file mode 120000
index c866b86874..0000000000
--- a/test/js/node/fs/fixtures/readdir-loop/a/b/c/d/e/f
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-../../../..
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/test/js/node/fs/fs.test.ts b/test/js/node/fs/fs.test.ts
index 38c6aa0fc6..ac326e2ac7 100644
--- a/test/js/node/fs/fs.test.ts
+++ b/test/js/node/fs/fs.test.ts
@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@ import fs, {
   existsSync,
   mkdirSync,
   openSync,
-  readdir,
   readdirSync,
   readFile,
   readFileSync,
@@ -3031,20 +3030,3 @@ it("promises.fdatasync with a bad fd should include that in the error thrown", a
   }
   expect.unreachable();
 });
-
-it("readdirSync should not crash on symlink loops", () => {
-  // prettier-ignore
-  expect(readdirSync(join(import.meta.dirname, "./fixtures/readdir-loop"), { recursive: true }).length).toBe(symlink_fixture_depth());
-});
-
-it("readdir should not crash on symlink loops", async () => {
-  // prettier-ignore
-  expect((await promisify(readdir)(join(import.meta.dirname, "./fixtures/readdir-loop"), { recursive: true })).length).toBe(symlink_fixture_depth());
-});
-
-function symlink_fixture_depth() {
-  if (process.platform === "darwin") return 166;
-  if (process.platform === "linux") return 206;
-  if (process.platform === "win32") return 6;
-  throw new Error(`test unimplemented for '${process.platform}'`);
-}