diff --git a/about.toml b/about.toml
index 10ad409..86eee69 100644
--- a/about.toml
+++ b/about.toml
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-accepted = ["MIT", "Apache-2.0", "ISC", "BSD-3-Clause", "Unicode-3.0", "OpenSSL", "Zlib"]
-workarounds = ["ring"]
+accepted = ["MIT", "Apache-2.0", "ISC", "BSD-3-Clause", "Unicode-3.0", "Zlib"]
 targets = ["x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu", "x86_64-unknown-linux-musl"]
 private = { ignore = true }
diff --git a/deny.toml b/deny.toml
index 6be295a..9be4849 100644
--- a/deny.toml
+++ b/deny.toml
@@ -71,6 +71,7 @@ feature-depth = 1
 # A list of advisory IDs to ignore. Note that ignored advisories will still
 # output a note when they are encountered.
 ignore = [
+    { id = "RUSTSEC-2025-0069", reason = "We use only a small subset of that unmaintained daemonize crate and it's unlikely to change (if it does this needs to be reconsidered)" },
     #"RUSTSEC-0000-0000",
     #{ id = "RUSTSEC-0000-0000", reason = "you can specify a reason the advisory is ignored" },
     #"a-crate-that-is-yanked@0.1.1", # you can also ignore yanked crate versions if you wish
@@ -89,7 +90,7 @@ ignore = [
 # List of explicitly allowed licenses
 # See https://spdx.org/licenses/ for list of possible licenses
 # [possible values: any SPDX 3.11 short identifier (+ optional exception)].
-allow = ["MIT", "Apache-2.0", "ISC", "BSD-3-Clause", "Unicode-3.0", "OpenSSL", "Zlib"]
+allow = ["MIT", "Apache-2.0", "ISC", "BSD-3-Clause", "Unicode-3.0", "Zlib"]
 
 # The confidence threshold for detecting a license from license text.
 # The higher the value, the more closely the license text must be to the
@@ -107,20 +108,20 @@ exceptions = [
 # Some crates don't have (easily) machine readable licensing information,
 # adding a clarification entry for it allows you to manually specify the
 # licensing information
-[[licenses.clarify]]
+# [[licenses.clarify]]
 # The package spec the clarification applies to
-crate = "ring"
+# crate = "ring"
 # The SPDX expression for the license requirements of the crate
-expression = "MIT AND ISC AND OpenSSL"
+# expression = "MIT AND ISC"
 # One or more files in the crate's source used as the "source of truth" for
 # the license expression. If the contents match, the clarification will be used
 # when running the license check, otherwise the clarification will be ignored
 # and the crate will be checked normally, which may produce warnings or errors
 # depending on the rest of your configuration
-license-files = [
+# license-files = [
 # Each entry is a crate relative path, and the (opaque) hash of its contents
-{ path = "LICENSE", hash = 0xbd0eed23 }
-]
+# { path = "LICENSE", hash = 0xbd0eed23 }
+# ]
 
 [licenses.private]
 # If true, ignores workspace crates that aren't published, or are only
diff --git a/mgmtd/src/db/import_v7.rs b/mgmtd/src/db/import_v7.rs
index 361ba25..5f92ea7 100644
--- a/mgmtd/src/db/import_v7.rs
+++ b/mgmtd/src/db/import_v7.rs
@@ -65,14 +65,12 @@ pub fn import_v7(tx: &rusqlite::Transaction, base_path: &Path) -> Result<()> {
 fn check_format_conf(f: &Path) -> Result<()> {
     let s = std::fs::read_to_string(f)?;
 
-    // No need for fancy parsing, we only allow upgrading from this exact file
-    if s != "# This file was auto-generated. Do not modify it!
-version=5
-nodeStates=1
-targetStates=1
-"
-    {
-        bail!("Unexpected format.conf:\n{s}");
+    if s.matches("version").count() != 1 {
+        bail!("Unexpected version in format.conf: version field ambiguous or not found");
+    }
+
+    if !s.contains("\nversion=5\n") {
+        bail!("Unexpected version in format.conf: Expected \"version=5\"");
     }
 
     Ok(())
diff --git a/mgmtd/src/grpc/buddy_group.rs b/mgmtd/src/grpc/buddy_group.rs
index 9f9d898..63f2753 100644
--- a/mgmtd/src/grpc/buddy_group.rs
+++ b/mgmtd/src/grpc/buddy_group.rs
@@ -235,9 +235,10 @@ pub(crate) async fn mirror_root_inode(
     needs_license(&ctx, LicensedFeature::Mirroring)?;
     fail_on_pre_shutdown(&ctx)?;
 
+    let offline_timeout = ctx.info.user_config.node_offline_timeout.as_secs();
     let meta_root = ctx
         .db
-        .read_tx(|tx| {
+        .read_tx(move |tx| {
             let node_uid = match db::misc::get_meta_root(tx)? {
                 MetaRoot::Normal(_, node_uid) => node_uid,
                 MetaRoot::Mirrored(_) => bail!("Root inode is already mirrored"),
@@ -267,7 +268,33 @@ pub(crate) async fn mirror_root_inode(
             })?;
 
             if clients > 0 {
-                bail!("This operation requires that all clients are disconnected/unmounted, but still has {clients} clients mounted.");
+                bail!(
+                    "This operation requires that all clients are disconnected/unmounted. \
+{clients} clients are still mounted."
+                );
+            }
+
+            let mut server_stmt = tx.prepare(sql!(
+                "SELECT COUNT(*) FROM nodes
+                WHERE node_type = ?1 AND UNIXEPOCH('now') - UNIXEPOCH(last_contact) < ?2
+                AND node_uid != ?3"
+            ))?;
+
+            let metas = server_stmt.query_row(
+                params![NodeType::Meta.sql_variant(), offline_timeout, node_uid],
+                |row| row.get::<_, i64>(0),
+            )?;
+            let storages = server_stmt.query_row(
+                params![NodeType::Storage.sql_variant(), offline_timeout, node_uid],
+                |row| row.get::<_, i64>(0),
+            )?;
+
+            if metas > 0 || storages > 0 {
+                bail!(
+                    "This operation requires that all nodes except the root meta node are shut \
+down. {metas} meta nodes (excluding the root meta node) and {storages} storage nodes have \
+communicated during the last {offline_timeout}s."
+                );
             }
 
             Ok(node_uid)