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MinIO protects data against hardware failures and silent data corruption using erasure code and checksums. With the highest level of redundancy, you may lose up to half (N/2) of the total drives and still be able to recover the data.

## What is Erasure Code?

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    how we can reproduce your findings. For memory corruption triggerable in
    TensorFlow models, please demonstrate an exploit against one of Alphabet's
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  - An explanation of who can exploit this vulnerability, and what they gain

  }

  private fun corruptMetadata(corruptor: (String) -> String) {
    val metadataFile =
      fileSystem.allPaths.find {
        it.name.endsWith(".0")
      }

    if (metadataFile != null) {
      val contents =
        fileSystem.read(metadataFile) {
          readUtf8()
        }

      fileSystem.write(metadataFile) {
        writeUtf8(corruptor(contents))
      }
    }
  }

// algorithms compute correct checksums. If any algorithm
// produces an incorrect checksum it fails with a hard error.
//
// bitrotSelfTest tries to catch any issue in the bitrot implementation
// early instead of silently corrupting data.
func bitrotSelfTest() {
	checksums := map[BitrotAlgorithm]string{
		SHA256:          "a7677ff19e0182e4d52e3a3db727804abc82a5818749336369552e54b838b004",

			nanoDigits[i] = c
		}
	}
	nsecs, _ := strconv.ParseInt(string(nanoDigits[:]), 10, 64) // Must succeed after validation
	if len(ss) > 0 && ss[0] == '-' {
		return time.Unix(secs, -1*nsecs), nil // Negative correction
	}
	return time.Unix(secs, nsecs), nil
}

// formatPAXTime converts ts into a time of the form %d.%d as described in the
// PAX specification. This function is capable of negative timestamps.

reporter of any incident.

## Enforcement Guidelines

Community leaders will follow these Community Impact Guidelines in determining
the consequences for any action they deem in violation of this Code of Conduct:

### 1. Correction

**Community Impact**: Use of inappropriate language or other behavior deemed
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**Consequence**: A private, written warning from community leaders, providing

// produces an incorrect value it fails with a hard error.
//
// erasureSelfTest tries to catch any issue in the erasure implementation
// early instead of silently corrupting data.
func erasureSelfTest() {
	// Approx runtime ~1ms
	var testConfigs [][2]uint8
	for total := uint8(4); total < 16; total++ {
		for data := total / 2; data < total; data++ {
			parity := total - data