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fs: /cd and file pickers fail on FreeBSD/ZFS — `stat` throws "dev exceeds the safe integer range" (fixed in @effect/platform-node-shared 4.0.5)

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Since Oct 21, 2026.

Assessment

Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
67/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Clearly specified
Activity status
Active
Tech stack
bun, typescript
Domain
backend

Research direction

Start with the workspace dependency catalog in package.json and check the existing Effect package version pins. The issue identifies the fix as an upstream dependency update to 4.0.5 or later; review the workspace lockfile and dependency update conventions, then verify the resolved versions. Done means the affected Effect packages resolve to a version containing the BigInt dev mapping fix.

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Description

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Description

Summary

OpenCode's Node filesystem layer comes from @effect/platform-node-shared, whose stat calls fs.stat(path, { bigint: true }) and then converts the BigInt dev field to a Number, throwing a RangeError when the value is outside the safe-integer range. FreeBSD reports 64-bit st_dev values for ZFS datasets (e.g. 8599779474788709465), so stat fails for essentially every path on the host. The visible result is that GET /api/fs/list, /api/fs/find, and /api/fs/read return HTTP 500, POST /api/session/{id}/move answers "Directory does not exist" for directories that do exist, and the TUI /cd command is unusable.

Effect already fixed this upstream in @effect/platform-node-shared 4.0.5 (https://github.com/Effect-TS/effect/pull/9112), which keeps dev as a BigInt. OpenCode still pins 4.0.1 in its workspace catalog, in v2.0.32, in v2.1.1, and on dev.

Environment

  • opencode version: 2.0.32 (channel: latest)
  • OS: FreeBSD 15.1-RELEASE (freebsd x64), ZFS 2.4.2-1-FreeBSD_g6330a45b0 (root dataset zroot/ROOT/15.1-RELEASE/usr/homeonzroot/usr/home`)
  • Bun (embedded in the opencode binary): v1.4.2 (744846f84) FreeBSD x64
  • Terminal: TERM=xterm-256color, TERM_PROGRAM=tmux, COLORTERM=truecolor
  • Shell: /usr/local/bin/bash
  • Install/channel: release (latest)
  • Active plugins: none found (opencode plugin list → "No plugins found"); no opencode.json/opencode.jsonc/cli.json present
  • Pinned dependency: "@effect/platform-node": "4.0.1", "@effect/platform-node-shared": "4.0.1", "effect": "4.0.1" (workspace catalog in package.json)

Reproduction

  1. Run OpenCode on a FreeBSD host whose working directory is on a ZFS dataset.
  2. In the TUI, type /cd and keep typing a path.
  3. Observe: Could not search directories. Keep typing to try again. The dropdown stays empty, and Enter is swallowed by the autocomplete handler, so the command cannot be submitted.
  4. The same failure occurs server-side when the move is issued directly:
$ opencode api post /api/session/<id>/move --data '{"directory":"/usr/home/asomers/src/github"}'
{"_tag":"InvalidRequestError","message":"Directory does not exist: /usr/home/asomers/src/github"}
  1. The directory listing endpoints fail with HTTP 500:
$ opencode api get "/api/fs/list?path=/usr/home/asomers&location.directory=/usr/home/asomers"
HTTP 500 Internal Server Error

$ opencode api get "/api/fs/find?query=src&limit=5&location.directory=/usr/home/asomers"
HTTP 500 Internal Server Error

$ opencode api get "/api/fs/read//usr/home/asomers/.profile"
HTTP 500 Internal Server Error

/usr/home/asomers/src/github exists (drwxr-xr-x 28 asomers asomers 29 Aug 7 14:40), so the "Directory does not exist" response is a false negative.

Expected Behavior

  • GET /api/fs/list returns the children of the requested directory.
  • POST /api/session/{id}/move moves the session to the requested directory.
  • In the TUI, /cd <path> lists matching directories and changes the session's working directory.

Actual Behavior

The filesystem layer throws before producing a result:

PlatformError: FileSystem.stat: dev exceeds the safe integer range: 8599779474788709465
    at Ec (/$bunfs/root/chunk-6xc3bwx4.js:2:980)
    at <anonymous> (/$bunfs/root/chunk-79zk6hn4.js:18:6249)
    at FileSystem.list (/$bunfs/root/chunk-26fat8ct.js:449:16850)
    at ServerProcess.start (/$bunfs/root/chunk-sz35r0mr.js:2:7534)

Root Cause

The throwing code is not in the OpenCode repository and not in the Bun runtime. It comes from @effect/platform-node-shared, in packages/platform/node-shared/src/NodeFileSystem.ts of https://github.com/Effect-TS/effect (tag [email protected]):

// packages/platform/node-shared/src/NodeFileSystem.ts:37
const bigintToNumber = (value: bigint, field: string): number => {
  const number = Number(value)
  if (!Number.isSafeInteger(number)) {
    throw new RangeError(`${field} exceeds the safe integer range: ${value}`)
  }
  return number
}
// packages/platform/node-shared/src/NodeFileSystem.ts:533
      dev: bigintToNumber(stat.dev, "dev"),
      rdev: bigintToNumberOption(stat.rdev),
      ino: bigintToNumberOption(stat.ino),
      mode: bigintToNumber(stat.mode, "mode"),

stat requests { bigint: true } and maps the fields back. dev and mode go through the strict bigintToNumber, which throws; the other fields use bigintToNumberOption, which returns undefined instead of throwing. dev is the field that breaks on FreeBSD/ZFS.

Relevant st_dev values on the affected host:

Path Filesystem st_dev
/usr/home zroot/usr/home 8599779474788709465 (throws)
/usr/local zroot/usr/local 17163752400735175193 (throws)
/tmp zroot/var/tmp 10799770302823152918 (throws)
/dev devfs 1895890688 (works)

/dev succeeds, which is consistent with the diagnosis: only filesystems whose device ID exceeds 2^53−1 are affected.

Already fixed upstream in Effect

Effect PR https://github.com/Effect-TS/effect/pull/9112 changed the mapping in @effect/platform-node-shared 4.0.5:

      dev: toUint64(stat.dev),
      rdev: toUint64Option(stat.rdev),

Verified against the standalone packages ([email protected], @effect/[email protected]) on the same host:

import { NodeFileSystem } from "@effect/platform-node"
import { Effect } from "effect"
import { FileSystem } from "effect/FileSystem"

const program = Effect.gen(function* () {
  const fs = yield* FileSystem
  console.log(yield* fs.stat("/usr/home/asomers"))
})

Effect.runPromise(program.pipe(Effect.provide(NodeFileSystem.layer)))
stat OK: { type: "Directory", ..., dev: 8599779474788709465n, ... }

stat succeeds and dev is returned as an exact BigInt. The same script against @effect/[email protected] throws RangeError: dev exceeds the safe integer range: 8599779474788709465.

Versions are affected as follows:

@effect/platform-node-shared dev mapping
4.0.0 – 4.0.4 bigintToNumber(stat.dev, "dev") (throws)
4.0.5 toUint64(stat.dev) (fixed)

Additional Context

  • Impact surface on the affected host:
    • TUI /cd directory autocomplete: broken ("Could not search directories. Keep typing to try again.")
    • TUI @ file autocomplete: broken ("Could not search files. Keep typing to try again.")
    • POST /api/session/{id}/move: broken with a misleading "Directory does not exist" error
    • GET /api/fs/read on an existing file: HTTP 500
    • Session creation in a ZFS directory still works (POST /api/session with location.directory), so opencode <dir> is unaffected
    • The agent's read/grep/glob/shell tools still work; they do not use the affected endpoints
  • Suggested change: bump the workspace catalog to @effect/platform-node / @effect/platform-node-shared / effect 4.0.5 or later, which picks up the upstream Effect fix. A dependency bump is sufficient; no OpenCode code change is needed.
  • Reproduces consistently on every request; it is not intermittent.
  • Workaround used on this host: start OpenCode in the target directory (opencode ~/src) or create a session there via the API (POST /api/session with location.directory) instead of using /cd.
Plugins

None

OpenCode version

v2.0.32

Steps to reproduce

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Operating System

FreeBSD 15.1 amd64

Terminal

Wezterm

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