ID:     i,
			Status: ps.Info.Status.String(),
			Used:   float64(diskStats[i].TotalSpace-diskStats[i].AvailableSpace) / float64(diskStats[i].TotalSpace),
		}
		if !ps.Participating {
			continue
		}
		// for participating pools, total bytes to be rebalanced by this pool is given by,
		// pf_c = (f_i + x)/c_i,
		// pf_c - percentage free space across pools, f_i - ith pool's free space, c_i - ith pool's capacity

### 2. Run distributed MinIO

To start a distributed MinIO instance, you just need to pass drive locations as parameters to the minio server command. Then, you’ll need to run the same command on all the participating nodes.

**NOTE:**

1024* drives in total.

- *If total number of nodes are of odd number then GCD algorithm provides affinity towards odd number erasure sets to provide for uniform distribution across nodes*. This is to ensure that same number of drives are pariticipating in any erasure set. For example if you have 2 nodes with 180 drives then GCD is 15 but this would lead to uneven distribution, one of the nodes would participate more drives. To avoid this the affinity is given towards nodes which leads to next...