# Decommissioning

Decommissiong is a mechanism in MinIO to drain older pools (usually with old hardware) and migrate the content from such pools to a newer pools (usually better hardware). Decommissioning spreads the data across all pools - for example, if you decommission `pool1`, all the data from `pool1` spreads across `pool2` and `pool3`.

## Features

- Reload() of MinIO server arguments without fully restarting the process.

- Expanding 1 node at a time by automating the process of creating a new pool
  and decommissioning to provide a functionality that smaller deployments
  care about.

if [ "${expected_checksum}" != "${got_checksum}" ]; then
	echo "BUG: decommission failed on encrypted objects: expected ${expected_checksum} got ${got_checksum}"
	exit 1
fi

# after decommissioning, compare listings in bucket2 and tiered
./mc version info myminio/bucket2 | grep -q "versioning is enabled"
ret=$?
if [ $ret -ne 0 ]; then
	echo "BUG: expected versioning enabled after decommission on bucket2"