diff --git a/src/bees-context.cc b/src/bees-context.cc
index 1e53659..127c051 100644
--- a/src/bees-context.cc
+++ b/src/bees-context.cc
@@ -193,7 +193,7 @@ BeesContext::dedup(const BeesRangePair &brp)
 	brp.second.fd(shared_from_this());
 
 	if (is_root_ro(brp.second.fid().root())) {
-		// BEESLOGDEBUG("WORKAROUND: dst subvol is read-only in " << name_fd(brp.second.fd()));
+		// BEESLOGDEBUG("WORKAROUND: dst root is read-only in " << name_fd(brp.second.fd()));
 		BEESCOUNT(dedup_workaround_btrfs_send);
 		return false;
 	}
diff --git a/src/bees-roots.cc b/src/bees-roots.cc
index f536f9a..7b9c5cd 100644
--- a/src/bees-roots.cc
+++ b/src/bees-roots.cc
@@ -699,7 +699,7 @@ BeesRoots::is_root_ro_nocache(uint64_t root)
 	uint64_t flags = 0;
 	DIE_IF_NON_ZERO(ioctl(root_fd, BTRFS_IOC_SUBVOL_GETFLAGS, &flags));
 	if (flags & BTRFS_SUBVOL_RDONLY) {
-		BEESLOGDEBUG("WORKAROUND: Avoiding RO subvol " << root);
+		BEESLOGDEBUG("WORKAROUND: Avoiding RO root " << root);
 		BEESCOUNT(root_workaround_btrfs_send);
 		return true;
 	}
@@ -947,7 +947,7 @@ BeesCrawl::fetch_extents()
 	// is ever switched back to read-write, it won't trigger big
 	// expensive in-kernel searches for ancient transids.
 	if (m_ctx->is_root_ro(old_state.m_root)) {
-		BEESLOGDEBUG("WORKAROUND: RO root " << old_state.m_root);
+		BEESLOGDEBUG("WORKAROUND: skipping scan of RO root " << old_state.m_root);
 		BEESCOUNT(root_workaround_btrfs_send);
 		return next_transid();
 	}