So I gave in and tried this. pyrite# btrfs quota rescan / ERROR: quota rescan failed: Read-only file system [33459.328631] BTRFS warning (device vda2): qgroup rescan init failed, qgroup is not enabled So it looks like it's not able to to be fixed with transactional server unless you take steps like: pyrite# mount -o remount,rw / pyrite# btrfs quota rescan / ERROR: quota rescan failed: Invalid argument [33965.861982] BTRFS info (device vda2): disk space caching is enabled [33967.386755] BTRFS warning (device vda2): qgroup rescan init failed, qgroup is not enabled