diff --git a/qa/suites/fs/workload/ranks/multi/balancer/automatic.yaml b/qa/suites/fs/workload/ranks/multi/balancer/automatic.yaml
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+tasks:
+- exec:
+    mon.a:
+      - ceph fs set cephfs balance_automate true
diff --git a/qa/suites/fs/workload/ranks/multi/balancer/distributed.yaml.disabled b/qa/suites/fs/workload/ranks/multi/balancer/distributed.yaml.disabled
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+# distributed pins would be interesting if we had workloads on multiple clients. We do not yet. So it's disabled.
+tasks:
+- exec:
+    mon.a:
+      - ceph fs set cephfs balance_automate false
+      - ceph fs subvolumegroup pin cephfs qa distributed 1
diff --git a/qa/suites/fs/workload/ranks/multi/balancer/random.yaml b/qa/suites/fs/workload/ranks/multi/balancer/random.yaml
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+overrides:
+  ceph:
+    conf:
+      mds:
+        mds_export_ephemeral_random_max: 0.10
+tasks:
+- exec:
+    mon.a:
+      - ceph fs set cephfs balance_automate false
+      - ceph fs subvolumegroup pin cephfs qa random 0.10
diff --git a/qa/suites/fs/workload/tasks/0-subvolume/no-subvolume.yaml b/qa/suites/fs/workload/tasks/0-subvolume/no-subvolume.yaml
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