- **Each object is written to a single EC set, and therefore is spread over no more than 16 drives.**
- **All the nodes running distributed MinIO setup are recommended to be homogeneous, i.e. same operating system, same number of drives and same network interconnects.**

- In this algorithm, we also make sure that we spread the drives out evenly. MinIO server expands ellipses passed as arguments. Here is a sample expansion to demonstrate the process.

```
minio server http://host{1...2}/export{1...8}
```

Expected expansion

```

    @Nonnull
    public static XmlNode read(InputStream input, @Nullable InputLocationBuilder locationBuilder)
            throws XMLStreamException {
        return getService().doRead(input, locationBuilder);
    }

    /**
     * Reads an XML node from a reader.
     */
    @Nonnull
    public static XmlNode read(Reader reader) throws XMLStreamException {
        return read(reader, null);
    }

    /**

  @Footprint(exclude = {Runnable.class, Executor.class, Thread.class, Exception.class})
  public Object measureSize() {
    for (Thread thread : blockedThreads) {
      thread.interrupt();
    }
    blockedThreads.clear();
    Facade<Object> f = impl.newFacade();
    for (int i = 0; i < numThreads; i++) {
      Thread thread =
          new Thread() {
            @Override
            public void run() {

    }
  }

  abstract val path: Any

  /**
   * Reads the public suffix list treating the operation as uninterruptible. We always want to read
   * the list otherwise we'll be left in a bad state. If the thread was interrupted prior to this
   * operation, it will be re-interrupted after the list is read.
   */
  private fun readTheListUninterruptibly() {
    var interrupted = false
    try {
      while (true) {
        try {

          try (InputStreamReader reader = new InputStreamReader(byteSource.openStream(), cs)) {
            int nRead = 0;
            while (remaining > 0 && (nRead = reader.read(buffer, bufIndex, remaining)) != -1) {
              bufIndex += nRead;
              remaining -= nRead;
            }
            if (nRead == -1) {
              // we reached EOF
              return new String(buffer, 0, bufIndex);
            }

                null);

        assertFalse(durableInfo.isExpired());

        // Wait for expiration
        try {
            Thread.sleep(150);
        } catch (InterruptedException e) {
            Thread.currentThread().interrupt();
        }

        assertTrue(durableInfo.isExpired());

        // Test persistent handle (never expires)

          @Override
          public Thread newThread(Runnable r) {
            Thread thread = new Thread(r);
            thread.setName(THREAD_NAME);
            thread.setPriority(THREAD_PRIORITY);
            thread.setDaemon(THREAD_DAEMON);
            thread.setUncaughtExceptionHandler(UNCAUGHT_EXCEPTION_HANDLER);
            return thread;
          }
        };

    Thread thread =

            } else {
                t.url = args[ai];
            }
        }

        final Thread[] threads = new Thread[t.numThreads];
        int ti;

        for (ti = 0; ti < t.numThreads; ti++) {
            threads[ti] = new Thread(t);
            logger.info(threads[ti].getName());
            threads[ti].start();
        }

    @Override
    public String toString() {
      assertTrue(Thread.holdsLock(mutex));
      return delegate.toString();
    }

    @Override
    public boolean equals(@Nullable Object o) {
      assertTrue(Thread.holdsLock(mutex));
      return delegate.equals(o);
    }

    @Override
    public int hashCode() {
      assertTrue(Thread.holdsLock(mutex));
      return delegate.hashCode();
    }