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+#!/bin/bash
+# Regression test for mkfs.btrfs --rootdir with DUP data profile and rootdir
+# size near the limit of the device.
+#
+# There is a bug that makes mkfs.btrfs always to create unnecessary SINGLE
+# chunks, which eats up a lot of space and leads to unexpected ENOSPC bugs.
+
+source "$TEST_TOP/common"
+
+check_prereq mkfs.btrfs
+prepare_test_dev
+
+tmp=$(mktemp -d --tmpdir btrfs-progs-mkfs.rootdirXXXXXXX)
+
+fallocate -l 128M $tmp/large_file
+
+# We should be able to create the fs with size limit to 2 * (128 + 32 + 8)
+# which is 336M. Here we round it up to 350M.
+run_check "$TOP/mkfs.btrfs" -f --rootdir "$tmp" -d dup -b 350M "$TEST_DEV"
+run_check "$TOP/btrfs" check "$TEST_DEV"
+
+rm -rf -- "$tmp"