This document explains the design approach of server side bucket replication. If you're looking to get started with replication, we suggest you go through the [Bucket replication guide](https://github.com/minio/minio/blob/master/docs/bucket/replication/README.md) first.

## Overview

	// IndexCB will return any index created but the compression.
	// Object must have been read at this point.
	IndexCB func() []byte

	// InclFreeVersions indicates that free versions need to be included
	// when looking up a version by fi.VersionID
	InclFreeVersions bool
	// SkipFreeVersion skips adding a free version when a tiered version is
	// being 'replaced'
	// Note: Used only when a tiered object is being expired.

}

// hashOrder - hashes input key to return consistent
// hashed integer slice. Returned integer order is salted
// with an input key. This results in consistent order.
// NOTE: collisions are fine, we are not looking for uniqueness
// in the slices returned.
func hashOrder(key string, cardinality int) []int {
	if cardinality <= 0 {
		// Returns an empty int slice for cardinality < 0.
		return nil
	}

		return "", false, errors.New("no Base DNs given")
	}

	// Check that DN exists in the LDAP directory.
	validatedDN, err := xldap.LookupDN(conn, dn)
	if err != nil {
		return "", false, fmt.Errorf("Error looking up DN %s: %w", dn, err)
	}
	if validatedDN == "" {
		return "", false, nil
	}

	// This will not return an error as the argument is validated to be a DN.
	pdn, _ := ldap.ParseDN(validatedDN)

// encryption schemes. Such an ETag must be decrypted before sent to an
// S3 client.
//
// # S3 Clients
//
// There are many different S3 client implementations. Most of them
// access the ETag by looking for the HTTP response header key "Etag".
// However, some of them assume that the header key has to be "ETag"
// (case-sensitive) and will fail otherwise.
// Further, some clients require that the ETag value is a double-quoted