diff --git a/fs/btrfs/dev-replace.c b/fs/btrfs/dev-replace.c
index 94f000b0ca79..45c5ba7d80ed 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/dev-replace.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/dev-replace.c
@@ -477,8 +477,8 @@ static int btrfs_dev_replace_start(struct btrfs_fs_info *fs_info,
 
 	btrfs_wait_ordered_roots(fs_info, U64_MAX, 0, (u64)-1);
 
-	/* force writing the updated state information to disk */
-	trans = btrfs_start_transaction(root, 0);
+	/* Commit dev_replace state and reserve 1 item for it. */
+	trans = btrfs_start_transaction(root, 1);
 	if (IS_ERR(trans)) {
 		ret = PTR_ERR(trans);
 		down_write(&dev_replace->rwsem);