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Keep min 2% free inodes

Asked by CaCO3

Recently I discovered that the BiT GUI shows this message in the status bar after the backup:
"Keep min 2% free inodes"

I understand the message and I started to worry since I never saw this message before.
Looking at my NAS (which I use for the backup, it is mounted as NFS), I see that I only use 1.8% of all inodes:
> tune2fs -l /dev/vg1/lv
    [..]
    Inode count: 121798656
    Free inodes: 119516225
    [..]

Does show BiT this message now generally like the "Keep min free disk space: 20480 Mb" message?

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Best Germar (germar) said : 		#1

This is a new feature introduced in 1.0.26. It works the same as the 'Keep min free disk space' feature except it takes care there are at least the configured percent of free inodes. Nothing to worry about.

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CaCO3 (caco3) said : 		#2

Thanks Germar, that solved my question.

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Germar (germar) said : 		#3

Maybe you're bitten by bug #1437623, too?

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CaCO3 (caco3) said : 		#4

Yes, I think I sometimes saw a python error in the terminal, but, since I was short in time, did not investigate it. :)

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CaCO3 (caco3) said : 		#5

I would suggest to make the last [INFO] message (shown in the GUI) to be something like "backup completed".

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Germar (germar) said : 		#6

Normally it shows 'Finish' when done. But when you're bitten by bug #1437623 the snapshot will terminate after the 'Keep min 2% free inodes' message. Everything important is already done in that stage so your snapshot is in save conditions.
Like I suggested in the bug comments, activating 'Remove snapshots older than' will fix this until next release.