uspost/reedsolomon) erasure coding scheme, which has a total shard maximum of 256 i.e 128 data and 128 parity. MinIO design goes beyond this limitation by doing some practical architecture choices.

- Erasure set is a single erasure coding unit within a MinIO deployment. An object is sharded within an erasure set. Erasure set size is automatically calculated based on the number of drives. MinIO supports unlimited number of drives but each erasure set can be upto 16 drives and a minimum of...