diff --git a/documentation/docs/25-build-and-deploy/60-adapter-cloudflare.md b/documentation/docs/25-build-and-deploy/60-adapter-cloudflare.md
index 033a01c8247d..5859d1326fbc 100644
--- a/documentation/docs/25-build-and-deploy/60-adapter-cloudflare.md
+++ b/documentation/docs/25-build-and-deploy/60-adapter-cloudflare.md
@@ -108,4 +108,4 @@ You may wish to refer to [Cloudflare's documentation for deploying a SvelteKit s
 
 ### Accessing the file system
 
-You can't access the file system through methods like `fs.readFileSync` in Serverless/Edge environments. If you need to access files that way, do that during building the app through [prerendering](https://kit.svelte.dev/docs/page-options#prerender). If you have a blog for example and don't want to manage your content through a CMS, then you need to prerender the content (or prerender the endpoint from which you get it) and redeploy your blog everytime you add new content.
+You can't use `fs` in Cloudflare Workers — you must [prerender](https://kit.svelte.dev/docs/page-options#prerender) the routes in question.
diff --git a/documentation/docs/25-build-and-deploy/70-adapter-cloudflare-workers.md b/documentation/docs/25-build-and-deploy/70-adapter-cloudflare-workers.md
index f0f11e7c682e..68e54b320a7b 100644
--- a/documentation/docs/25-build-and-deploy/70-adapter-cloudflare-workers.md
+++ b/documentation/docs/25-build-and-deploy/70-adapter-cloudflare-workers.md
@@ -127,4 +127,4 @@ When deploying to workers, the server generated by SvelteKit is bundled into a s
 
 ### Accessing the file system
 
-You can't access the file system through methods like `fs.readFileSync` in Serverless/Edge environments. If you need to access files that way, do that during building the app through [prerendering](https://kit.svelte.dev/docs/page-options#prerender). If you have a blog for example and don't want to manage your content through a CMS, then you need to prerender the content (or prerender the endpoint from which you get it) and redeploy your blog everytime you add new content.
+You can't use `fs` in Cloudflare Workers — you must [prerender](https://kit.svelte.dev/docs/page-options#prerender) the routes in question.
diff --git a/documentation/docs/25-build-and-deploy/80-adapter-netlify.md b/documentation/docs/25-build-and-deploy/80-adapter-netlify.md
index 9daffeccdf7c..a9d5702b3b14 100644
--- a/documentation/docs/25-build-and-deploy/80-adapter-netlify.md
+++ b/documentation/docs/25-build-and-deploy/80-adapter-netlify.md
@@ -111,4 +111,8 @@ Additionally, you can add your own Netlify functions by creating a directory for
 
 ### Accessing the file system
 
-You can't access the file system through methods like `fs.readFileSync` in Serverless/Edge environments. If you need to access files that way, do that during building the app through [prerendering](https://kit.svelte.dev/docs/page-options#prerender). If you have a blog for example and don't want to manage your content through a CMS, then you need to prerender the content (or prerender the endpoint from which you get it) and redeploy your blog everytime you add new content.
+You can't use `fs` in edge deployments.
+
+You _can_ use it in serverless deployments, but it won't work as expected, since files are not copied from your project into your deployment. Instead, use the `read` function from `$app/server` to access your files. `read` does not work inside edge deployments (this may change in future).
+
+Alternatively, you can [prerender](https://kit.svelte.dev/docs/page-options#prerender) the routes in question.
diff --git a/documentation/docs/25-build-and-deploy/90-adapter-vercel.md b/documentation/docs/25-build-and-deploy/90-adapter-vercel.md
index 31ec3d20092b..ae9b91444c6f 100644
--- a/documentation/docs/25-build-and-deploy/90-adapter-vercel.md
+++ b/documentation/docs/25-build-and-deploy/90-adapter-vercel.md
@@ -157,4 +157,8 @@ Projects created before a certain date may default to using an older Node versio
 
 ### Accessing the file system
 
-You can't access the file system through methods like `fs.readFileSync` in Serverless/Edge environments. If you need to access files that way, do that during building the app through [prerendering](https://kit.svelte.dev/docs/page-options#prerender). If you have a blog for example and don't want to manage your content through a CMS, then you need to prerender the content (or prerender the endpoint from which you get it) and redeploy your blog everytime you add new content.
+You can't use `fs` in edge functions.
+
+You _can_ use it in serverless functions, but it won't work as expected, since files are not copied from your project into your deployment. Instead, use the `read` function from `$app/server` to access your files. `read` does not work inside routes deployed as edge functions (this may change in future).
+
+Alternatively, you can [prerender](https://kit.svelte.dev/docs/page-options#prerender) the routes in question.