diff --git a/lib/common/asar_init.js b/lib/common/asar_init.js
index 4df4f156534..f7fe012cab1 100644
--- a/lib/common/asar_init.js
+++ b/lib/common/asar_init.js
@@ -3,7 +3,13 @@
 ;(function () { // eslint-disable-line
   return function (source, require, asarSource) {
     // Expose fs module without asar support.
-    source['original-fs'] = source.fs
+
+    // NB: Node's 'fs' and 'internal/fs/streams' have a lazy-loaded circular
+    // dependency. So to expose the unmodified Node 'fs' functionality here,
+    // we have to copy both 'fs' *and* 'internal/fs/streams' and modify the
+    // copies to depend on each other instead of on our asarified 'fs' code.
+    source['original-fs'] = source.fs.replace("require('internal/fs/streams')", "require('original-fs/streams')")
+    source['original-fs/streams'] = source['internal/fs/streams'].replace("require('fs')", "require('original-fs')")
 
     // Make asar.js accessible via "require".
     source.ELECTRON_ASAR = asarSource