## Creating a hotfix branch

Customers in MinIO are allowed LTS on any release they choose to standardize. Production setups seldom change and require maintenance. Hotfix branches are such maintenance branches that allow customers to operate a production cluster without drastic changes to their deployment.

> certs from the server certificate chain, this is mainly to add simplicity of setup. However if you wish to terminate
> TLS certificates via a different domain for your FTP servers you may choose the above command line options.


### Custom Algorithms (SFTP)

Custom algorithms can be specified via command line parameters.
Algorithms are comma separated. 

The drives should all be of approximately the same size.

## Get Started with MinIO in Erasure Code

### 1. Prerequisites

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        serverPools := z.getServerPoolsAvailableSpace(ctx)
        total := serverPools.TotalAvailable()
        // choose when we reach this many
        choose := rand.Uint64() % total
        atTotal := uint64(0)
        for _, pool := range serverPools {
                atTotal += pool.Available
                if atTotal > choose && pool.Available > 0 {
                        return pool.Index
                }
        }

For Veeam Backup with Immutability, choose the amount of days you want to make backups immutable for

![Choose Immutability Days for Object Store](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/minio/minio/master/docs/integrations/veeam/screenshots/object_store_immutable_days.png)

# Erasure code sizing guide

## Toy Setups

Capacity constrained environments, MinIO will work but not recommended for production.

| servers | drives (per node) | stripe_size | parity chosen (default) | tolerance for reads (servers) | tolerance for writes (servers) |
|--------:|------------------:|------------:|------------------------:|------------------------------:|-------------------------------:|

- **MinIO creates erasure-coding sets of _2_ to _16_ drives per set.  The number of drives you provide in total must be a multiple of one of those numbers.**
- **MinIO chooses the largest EC set size which divides into the total number of drives or total number of nodes given - making sure to keep the uniform distribution i.e each node participates equal number of drives per set**.

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