diff --git a/cmds/filesystem.c b/cmds/filesystem.c
index 936db672..9a88e24e 100644
--- a/cmds/filesystem.c
+++ b/cmds/filesystem.c
@@ -841,6 +841,8 @@ static const char * const cmd_filesystem_defrag_usage[] = {
 	"-l len              defragment only up to len bytes",
 	"-t size             target extent size hint (default: 32M)",
 	"",
+	HELPINFO_INSERT_GLOBALS,
+	HELPINFO_INSERT_VERBOSE,
 	"Warning: most Linux kernels will break up the ref-links of COW data",
 	"(e.g., files copied with 'cp --reflink', snapshots) which may cause",
 	"considerable increase of space usage. See btrfs-filesystem(8) for",
@@ -849,7 +851,6 @@ static const char * const cmd_filesystem_defrag_usage[] = {
 };
 
 static struct btrfs_ioctl_defrag_range_args defrag_global_range;
-static int defrag_global_verbose;
 static int defrag_global_errors;
 static int defrag_callback(const char *fpath, const struct stat *sb,
 		int typeflag, struct FTW *ftwbuf)
@@ -858,8 +859,7 @@ static int defrag_callback(const char *fpath, const struct stat *sb,
 	int fd = 0;
 
 	if ((typeflag == FTW_F) && S_ISREG(sb->st_mode)) {
-		if (defrag_global_verbose)
-			printf("%s\n", fpath);
+		pr_verbose(1, "%s\n", fpath);
 		fd = open(fpath, defrag_open_mode);
 		if (fd < 0) {
 			goto error;
@@ -914,7 +914,6 @@ static int cmd_filesystem_defrag(const struct cmd_struct *cmd,
 	thresh = SZ_32M;
 
 	defrag_global_errors = 0;
-	defrag_global_verbose = 0;
 	defrag_global_errors = 0;
 	optind = 0;
 	while(1) {
@@ -932,7 +931,7 @@ static int cmd_filesystem_defrag(const struct cmd_struct *cmd,
 			flush = 1;
 			break;
 		case 'v':
-			defrag_global_verbose = 1;
+			bconf_be_verbose();
 			break;
 		case 's':
 			start = parse_size(optarg);
@@ -1032,8 +1031,7 @@ static int cmd_filesystem_defrag(const struct cmd_struct *cmd,
 			/* errors are handled in the callback */
 			ret = 0;
 		} else {
-			if (defrag_global_verbose)
-				printf("%s\n", argv[i]);
+			pr_verbose(1, "%s\n", argv[i]);
 			ret = ioctl(fd, BTRFS_IOC_DEFRAG_RANGE,
 					&defrag_global_range);
 			defrag_err = errno;