> NOTE: Server side replication is supported for idempotent versions on directory objects.

### Idempotent versions on delete markers

Duplicate delete markers are not created on MinIO buckets with versioning, if an application performs a soft delete on an object repeatedly - that object will only ever have a single DELETE marker for all such successive attempts. This is done to ensure that repeated soft deletes do not ever need multiple versions in the first place.

It must be noted that if active-active replication is set up with delete marker replication, there is potential for duplicate delete markers to be created if both source and target concurrently set a Delete Marker or if one/both of the clusters went down at tandem before the replication event was synced.This is an unavoidable side-effect in active-active replication caused by allowing delete markers set on a object version with `REPLICA` status back to source.

| `minio_cluster_usage_buckets_versions_count`                    | Total object versions count in bucket, including delete markers. <br><br>Type: gauge | `bucket`          |
| `minio_cluster_usage_buckets_delete_markers_count`              | Total delete markers count in bucket. <br><br>Type: gauge                            | `bucket`          |

	for _, rule := range lc.FilterRules(obj) {
		if obj.ExpiredObjectDeleteMarker() {
			if rule.Expiration.DeleteMarker.val {
				// Indicates whether MinIO will remove a delete marker with no noncurrent versions.
				// Only latest marker is removed. If set to true, the delete marker will be expired;
				// if set to false the policy takes no action. This cannot be specified with Days or
				// Date in a Lifecycle Expiration Policy.

	Objects   uint64
	Versions  uint64 // Versions that are not delete markers.
	ObjSizes  sizeHistogram
	Compacted bool
}

//msgp:tuple dataUsageEntryV6
type dataUsageEntryV6 struct {
	Children dataUsageHashMap
	// These fields do no include any children.
	Size      int64
	Objects   uint64
	Versions  uint64 // Versions that are not delete markers.
	ObjSizes  sizeHistogram
	Compacted bool
}

| `minio_node_replication_average_active_workers`         | Average number of active replication workers                                                             |
| `minio_node_replication_max_active_workers`             | Maximum number of active replication workers seen since server start                                     |

			var deleteMarkers uint64

			for i, nerr := range errs {
				if nerr != nil {
					continue
				}
				for _, fi := range versions[i].Versions {
					if fi.Deleted {
						// Delete markers are a write operation not a permanent delete.
						deleteMarkers++
						continue
					}
					permanentDeletes++
				}
			}
			if deleteMarkers > 0 {

	Expires              time.Time // Is only used in POST/PUT operations

	DeleteMarker            bool // Is only set in DELETE operations for delete marker replication
	CheckDMReplicationReady bool // Is delete marker ready to be replicated - set only during HEAD
	Tagging                 bool // Is only in GET/HEAD operations to return tagging metadata along with regular metadata and body.

		} else {
			return opts, err
		}
	}

	opts.DeletePrefix = deletePrefix
	opts.Versioned = globalBucketVersioningSys.PrefixEnabled(bucket, object)
	// Objects matching prefixes should not leave delete markers,
	// dramatically reduces namespace pollution while keeping the
	// benefits of replication, make sure to apply version suspension
	// only at bucket level instead.

	oi, ok := oiCache[fmt.Sprintf("%s-%s", toDel.ObjectName, toDel.VersionID)]
	return oi, ok
}

func batchObjsForDelete(ctx context.Context, r *BatchJobExpire, ri *batchJobInfo, job BatchJobRequest, api ObjectLayer, wk *workers.Workers, expireCh <-chan []expireObjInfo) {
	vc, _ := globalBucketVersioningSys.Get(r.Bucket)
	retryAttempts := job.Expire.Retry.Attempts
	if retryAttempts <= 0 {
		retryAttempts = batchExpireJobDefaultRetries
	}