const (
	driveUsedBytes               = "used_bytes"
	driveFreeBytes               = "free_bytes"
	driveTotalBytes              = "total_bytes"
	driveUsedInodes              = "used_inodes"
	driveFreeInodes              = "free_inodes"
	driveTotalInodes             = "total_inodes"
	driveTimeoutErrorsTotal      = "timeout_errors_total"
	driveIOErrorsTotal           = "io_errors_total"
	driveAvailabilityErrorsTotal = "availability_errors_total"

drives.  Therefore, the number of drives you present must be a multiple of one of these numbers.  Each object is written to a single erasure-coding set.

Minio uses the largest possible EC set size which divides into the number of drives given. For example, *18 drives* are configured as *2 sets of 9 drives*, and *24 drives* are configured as *2 sets of 12 drives*.  This is true for scenarios when running MinIO as a standalone erasure coded deployment. In [distributed setup however node (affinity)...

A stand-alone MinIO server would go down if the server hosting the drives goes offline. In contrast, a distributed MinIO setup with _m_ servers and _n_ drives will have your data safe as long as _m/2_ servers or _m*n_/2 or more drives are online.

For example, an 16-server distributed setup with 200 drives per node would continue serving files, up to 4 servers can be offline in default configuration i.e around 800 drives down MinIO would continue to read and write objects.

	ch := make(chan madmin.SpeedTestResult, 1)
	go func() {
		defer xioutil.SafeClose(ch)

		concurrency := opts.concurrencyStart

		if opts.autotune {
			// if we have less drives than concurrency then choose
			// only the concurrency to be number of drives to start
			// with - since default '32' might be big and may not
			// complete in total time of 10s.
			if globalEndpoints.NEndpoints() < concurrency {

on 16 drive MinIO deployment. If you use eight data and eight parity drives, the file space usage will be approximately twice, i.e. 100 MiB
file will take 200 MiB space. But, if you use ten data and six parity drives, same 100 MiB file takes around 160 MiB. If you use 14 data and
two parity drives, 100 MiB file takes only approximately 114 MiB.

import "context"

const (
	healthDrivesOfflineCount = "drives_offline_count"
	healthDrivesOnlineCount  = "drives_online_count"
	healthDrivesCount        = "drives_count"
)

var (
	healthDrivesOfflineCountMD = NewGaugeMD(healthDrivesOfflineCount,
		"Count of offline drives in the cluster")
	healthDrivesOnlineCountMD = NewGaugeMD(healthDrivesOnlineCount,
		"Count of online drives in the cluster")

	return nil, fmt.Errorf("%w (offline-disks=%d/%d)", errErasureReadQuorum, disksNotFound, len(p.readers))
}

// Decode reads from readers, reconstructs data if needed and writes the data to the writer.
// A set of preferred drives can be supplied. In that case they will be used and the data reconstructed.

minio server --address :9003 /data/tenant3
```

![Example-1](https://github.com/minio/minio/blob/master/docs/screenshots/Example-1.jpg?raw=true)

### 1.2 Host Multiple Tenants on Multiple Drives (Erasure Code)

Use the following commands to host 3 tenants on multiple drives:

```sh
minio server --address :9001 /disk{1...4}/data/tenant1
minio server --address :9002 /disk{1...4}/data/tenant2
minio server --address :9003 /disk{1...4}/data/tenant3
```

    ((DataOutputStream) out).writeBytes(s);
  }

  /**
   * Writes a char as specified by {@link DataOutputStream#writeChar(int)}, except using
   * little-endian byte order.
   *
   * @throws IOException if an I/O error occurs
   */
  @Override
  public void writeChar(int v) throws IOException {
    writeShort(v);
  }

  /**
   * Writes a {@code String} as specified by {@link DataOutputStream#writeChars(String)}, except

			buckets = append(buckets, BucketInfo{
				Name:    v.Name,
				Deleted: v.Created,
			})
		}
	}

	return buckets, nil
}

func cloneDrives(drives []StorageAPI) []StorageAPI {
	newDrives := make([]StorageAPI, len(drives))
	copy(newDrives, drives)
	return newDrives
}

func getBucketInfoLocal(ctx context.Context, bucket string, opts BucketOptions) (BucketInfo, error) {
	globalLocalDrivesMu.RLock()