Meanwhile I think this is a more deeper Linux bug, because... This server has (besides some Seagates) 2 Hitachi (HGST) SATA disks, but Linux shows 3 of them with 2 with the same serial number: root@toy02:~# lsblk -o NAME,SIZE,FSTYPE,LABEL,MOUNTPOINT NAME SIZE FSTYPE LABEL MOUNTPOINT sda 1.8T drbd sdb 1.8T btrfs data sdc 1.8T drbd sdd 1.8T drbd sde 1.8T drbd sdf 68G |-sdf1 14.9G ext4 / |-sdf2 14.9G ext4 |-sdf3 14.9G swap swap [SWAP] `-sdf4 23.3G ext4 tmp /tmp sr0 1024M drbd0 1.8T btrfs data drbd1 1.8T drbd2 1.8T btrfs data drbd3 1.8T btrfs data root@toy02:~# hdparm -I /dev/sdb| grep Number: Model Number: HGST HUS724020ALA640 Serial Number: PN2134P5G2P2AX root@toy02:~# hdparm -I /dev/sdd| grep Number: Model Number: HGST HUS724020ALA640 Serial Number: PN2134P5G2P2XX root@toy02:~# hdparm -I /dev/sde| grep Number: Model Number: HGST HUS724020ALA640 Serial Number: PN2134P5G2P2AX This is why btrfs gets confused: root@toy02:~# btrfs_info /data : Data, RAID0: total=108.00GiB, used=107.55GiB System, RAID1: total=32.00MiB, used=16.00KiB Metadata, RAID1: total=1.00GiB, used=139.59MiB Label: data uuid: 411af13f-6cae-4f03-99dc-5941acb3135b Total devices 3 FS bytes used 107.68GiB devid 1 size 1.82TiB used 37.03GiB path /dev/drbd0 devid 3 size 1.82TiB used 36.03GiB path /dev/drbd2 devid 4 size 1.82TiB used 37.00GiB path /dev/sdb /dev/sdb is WRONG, it should be /dev/drbd3, because I have expanded the btrfs filesystem with: root@toy02:~# btrfs device add -f /dev/drbd3 /data More info: root@toy02:~# lf drbd /dev dRWX - 2015-08-10 14:17 /dev/drbd lRWX - 2015-08-10 14:18 /dev/block/147:0 -> ../drbd0 lRWX - 2015-08-11 14:45 /dev/block/147:1 -> ../drbd1 lRWX - 2015-08-11 14:00 /dev/block/147:2 -> ../drbd2 lRWX - 2015-08-11 14:00 /dev/block/147:3 -> ../drbd3 lRWX - 2015-08-11 14:00 /dev/drbd/by-disk/disk/by-id/ata-HGST_HUS724020ALA640_PN2134P5G2P2AX -> ../../../../drbd3 lRWX - 2015-08-11 14:00 /dev/drbd/by-disk/disk/by-id/ata-HGST_HUS724020ALA640_PN2134P5G2P2XX -> ../../../../drbd2 lRWX - 2015-08-11 14:45 /dev/drbd/by-disk/disk/by-id/ata-ST2000DM001-1CH164_W241L86K -> ../../../../drbd1 lRWX - 2015-08-10 14:18 /dev/drbd/by-disk/disk/by-id/ata-ST2000DM001-1CH164_W241L88L -> ../../../../drbd0 lRWX - 2015-08-11 14:00 /dev/drbd/by-res/d2 -> ../../drbd2 lRWX - 2015-08-11 14:00 /dev/drbd/by-res/d3 -> ../../drbd3 lRWX - 2015-08-10 14:18 /dev/drbd/by-res/data/0 -> ../../../drbd0 lRWX - 2015-08-11 14:45 /dev/drbd/by-res/data/1 -> ../../../drbd1 bRW- 147,000 2015-08-10 14:18 /dev/drbd0 bRW- 147,001 2015-08-11 14:45 /dev/drbd1 bRW- 147,002 2015-08-11 14:00 /dev/drbd2 bRW- 147,003 2015-08-11 14:00 /dev/drbd3 root@toy02:~# lf HGST /dev lRWX - 2015-08-11 16:41 /dev/disk/by-id/ata-HGST_HUS724020ALA640_PN2134P5G2P2AX -> ../../sdb lRWX - 2015-08-10 16:45 /dev/disk/by-id/ata-HGST_HUS724020ALA640_PN2134P5G2P2XX -> ../../sdd lRWX - 2015-08-11 14:00 /dev/drbd/by-disk/disk/by-id/ata-HGST_HUS724020ALA640_PN2134P5G2P2AX -> ../../../../drbd3 lRWX - 2015-08-11 14:00 /dev/drbd/by-disk/disk/by-id/ata-HGST_HUS724020ALA640_PN2134P5G2P2XX -> ../../../../drbd2 root@toy02:~# lf sde /dev lRWX - 2015-08-10 16:45 /dev/block/8:64 -> ../sde lRWX - 2015-08-10 16:45 /dev/disk/by-path/pci-0000:08:00.0-scsi-0:1:2:0 -> ../../sde bRW- 008,064 2015-08-10 16:45 /dev/sde