if parityDrives < 0 {
		parityDrives = er.defaultParityCount
	}

	if globalStorageClass.AvailabilityOptimized() {
		// If we have offline disks upgrade the number of erasure codes for this object.
		parityOrig := parityDrives

		var offlineDrives int
		for _, disk := range onlineDisks {
			if disk == nil || !disk.IsOnline() {
				parityDrives++
				offlineDrives++
				continue

	}

	return fi.ToObjectInfo(minioMetaBucket, key, opts.Versioned || opts.VersionSuspended), nil
}

// PutObject - creates an object upon reading from the input stream
// until EOF, erasure codes the data across all disk and additionally
// writes `xl.meta` which carries the necessary metadata for future
// object operations.