mkfs.btrfs (unlike mkfs.ext4) checks if the target already contains a file system and refuses to continue if so. This causes spurious fails in case the random garbage on the temporary device matches a valid FS header: [ 19.723806] testsuite-64.sh[355]: + udevadm lock --device=/dev/mapper/encbtrfs0 --device=/dev/mapper/encbtrfs1 --device=/dev/mapper/encbtrfs2 --device=/dev/mapper/encbtrfs3 mkfs.btrfs -M -d raid1 -m raid1 -L btrfs_mencdisk -U deadbeef-dead-dead-beef-000000000003 /dev/mapper/encbtrfs0 /dev/mapper/encbtrfs1 /dev/mapper/encbtrfs2 /dev/mapper/encbtrfs3 [ 19.918934] testsuite-64.sh[2494]: ERROR: /dev/mapper/encbtrfs0 appears to contain an existing filesystem (hfsplus) [ 19.920490] testsuite-64.sh[2494]: ERROR: use the -f option to force overwrite of /dev/mapper/encbtrfs0 Let's force mkfs.btrfs to overwrite the file system in such case. (cherry picked from commit b3ba7d6274aff864a80dc9b1ff7d88ad376da451) (cherry picked from commit 12c3b1980b47a87139c3f4406161df69e7515873) (cherry picked from commit b67fad80e048ab4d8f0f39e40302b41f6161fe75)
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