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+#! /bin/bash
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+# Copyright (C) 2019 SUSE Linux Products GmbH. All Rights Reserved.
+#
+# FS QA Test 182
+#
+# Test if balance will report false ENOSPC error
+#
+# This is a long existing bug, caused by over-estimated metadata
+# space_info::bytes_may_use.
+# There is one proposed patch for btrfs-progs to fix it, titled:
+# "btrfs-progs: balance: Sync the fs before balancing metadata chunks"
+#
+seq=`basename $0`
+seqres=$RESULT_DIR/$seq
+echo "QA output created by $seq"
+
+here=`pwd`
+tmp=/tmp/$$
+status=1 # failure is the default!
+trap "_cleanup; exit \$status" 0 1 2 3 15
+
+_cleanup()
+{
+ cd /
+ rm -f $tmp.*
+}
+
+# get standard environment, filters and checks
+. ./common/rc
+. ./common/filter
+
+# remove previous $seqres.full before test
+rm -f $seqres.full
+
+# real QA test starts here
+
+# Modify as appropriate.
+_supported_fs btrfs
+_supported_os Linux
+_require_scratch
+
+nr_files=1024
+
+_scratch_mkfs > /dev/null
+_scratch_mount
+
+$BTRFS_UTIL_PROG subvolume create "$SCRATCH_MNT/subvol" > /dev/null
+
+# Create some small files to take up enough metadata reserved space
+for ((i = 0; i < $nr_files; i++)) do
+ _pwrite_byte 0xcd 0 1K "$SCRATCH_MNT/subvol/file_$i" > /dev/null
+done
+
+$BTRFS_UTIL_PROG balance start -m "$SCRATCH_MNT" > /dev/null
+
+# success, all done
+echo "Silence is golden"
+status=0
+exit
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+QA output created by 182
+Silence is golden
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179 auto qgroup dangerous
180 auto quick qgroup limit
181 auto quick balance
+182 auto quick balance