diff --git a/pkgs/tools/filesystems/btrfs-progs/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/filesystems/btrfs-progs/default.nix
index 9ad343f60a8c..936555f93a4d 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/filesystems/btrfs-progs/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/filesystems/btrfs-progs/default.nix
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 , asciidoc, docbook_xml_dtd_45, docbook_xsl, libxslt, pkg-config, python3, xmlto
 , zstd
 , acl, attr, e2fsprogs, libuuid, lzo, systemd, zlib
+, runCommand, btrfs-progs
 }:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
@@ -18,7 +19,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     python3 python3.pkgs.setuptools
   ];
 
-  buildInputs = [ acl attr e2fsprogs libuuid lzo python3 systemd zlib zstd ];
+  buildInputs = [ acl attr e2fsprogs libuuid lzo python3 zlib zstd ] ++ lib.optionals stdenv.hostPlatform.isGnu [ systemd ];
 
   # for python cross-compiling
   _PYTHON_HOST_PLATFORM = stdenv.hostPlatform.config;
@@ -31,12 +32,21 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     install -v -m 444 -D btrfs-completion $out/share/bash-completion/completions/btrfs
   '';
 
-  configureFlags = lib.optional stdenv.hostPlatform.isMusl "--disable-backtrace";
+  configureFlags = lib.optional stdenv.hostPlatform.isMusl "--disable-backtrace --disable-libudev";
 
-  makeFlags = [ "udevruledir=$(out)/lib/udev/rules.d" ];
+  makeFlags = lib.optionals stdenv.hostPlatform.isGnu [ "udevruledir=$(out)/lib/udev/rules.d" ];
 
   enableParallelBuilding = true;
 
+  passthru.tests = {
+    simple-filesystem = runCommand "btrfs-progs-create-fs" {} ''
+      mkdir -p $out
+      truncate -s110M $out/disc
+      ${btrfs-progs}/bin/mkfs.btrfs $out/disc | tee $out/success
+      ${btrfs-progs}/bin/btrfs check $out/disc | tee $out/success
+      [ -e $out/success ]
+    '';
+  };
   meta = with lib; {
     description = "Utilities for the btrfs filesystem";
     homepage = "https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/";