According to #btrfs on freenode, this problem occurs because balancing
the filesystem raid1 mirrors the meta data. Then you are not allowed to
remove any devices because the metadata wouldn't be raid1 mirrored any
more. The weird question that comes from this is why are you allowed to
make a btrfs filesystem with raid1 that only has one device in the first
place?

It seems like you can not have the raid1 problem by making your btrfs
partitions with 'mkfs.btrfs -m single -d single /dev/sdxx' which
specifies that both the data (-d) and the metadata (-m) are not raid1
mirrored.

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Title:
  "btrfs device delete /dev/sdaX /" fails with error "ERROR: error
  removing the device '/dev/sdaX'"

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