if err == nil {
		return storageDisks, format, nil
	}

	tries++ // tried already once

	// Wait on each try for an update.
	ticker := time.NewTicker(1 * time.Second)
	defer ticker.Stop()

	for {
		// Only log once every 10 iterations, then reset the tries count.
		verbose = tries >= 10
		if verbose {
			tries = 1
		}

# 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) |
|--------:|------------------:|------------:|------------------------:|------------------------------:|-------------------------------:|

return false } iterations-- if iterations == 0 { return true } } } // primes are the first prime numbers (except 2), such that the product of any // three primes fits in a uint32. // // More primes cause fewer Miller-Rabin tests of composites (nothing can help // with the final test on the actual prime) but have diminishing returns: these // 255 primes catch 84.9% of composites, the next 255 would catch 1.5% more. // Adding primes can still be marginally useful since they only compete with the // (much...

millerRabinSetup(w) if err != nil { // w is zero, one, or even. return false } primes, err := bigmod.NewNat().SetBytes(productOfPrimes, mr.w) // If w is too small for productOfPrimes, key generation is // going to be fast enough anyway. if err == nil { _, hasInverse := primes.InverseVarTime(primes, mr.w) if !hasInverse { // productOfPrimes doesn't have an inverse mod w, // so w is divisible by at least one of the primes. return false } } // iterations is the number of Miller-Rabin rounds, each with...

A stand-alone MinIO server would go down if the server hosting the drives goes offline. In contrast, a distributed MinIO setup with _m_ servers and _n_ drives will have your data safe as long as _m/2_ servers or _m*n_/2 or more drives are online.

For example, an 16-server distributed setup with 200 drives per node would continue serving files, up to 4 servers can be offline in default configuration i.e around 800 drives down MinIO would continue to read and write objects.

package cmd

import (
	"os"
	"syscall"
)

var (
	// Disallow updating access times
	// Add non-block to avoid syscall to attempt to set epoll on files.
	readMode = os.O_RDONLY | 0x40000 | syscall.O_NONBLOCK // O_NOATIME

	// Write with data sync only used only for `xl.meta` writes
	writeMode = 0x1000 | syscall.O_NONBLOCK // O_DSYNC

	ch := make(chan madmin.SpeedTestResult, 1)
	go func() {
		defer xioutil.SafeClose(ch)

		concurrency := opts.concurrencyStart

		if opts.autotune {
			// if we have less drives than concurrency then choose
			// only the concurrency to be number of drives to start
			// with - since default '32' might be big and may not
			// complete in total time of 10s.
			if globalEndpoints.NEndpoints() < concurrency {

describes everything that can be configured in a MinIO setup, such as '--address', '--console-address' and command line arguments for the MinIO server.

Historically everything to MinIO was provided via command arguments for the hostnames and the drives via an ellipses syntax such as `minio server http://host{1...4}/disk{1...4}` this requirement added an additional burden to have sequential hostnames for us to make sure that we can provide horizontal distribution, however we have come across situations...

	driveOfflineCountMD = NewGaugeMD(driveOfflineCount,
		"Count of offline drives")
	driveOnlineCountMD = NewGaugeMD(driveOnlineCount,
		"Count of online drives")
	driveCountMD = NewGaugeMD(driveCount,
		"Count of all drives")

	// iostat related
	driveReadsPerSecMD = NewGaugeMD(driveReadsPerSec,
		"Reads per second on a drive",
		allDriveLabels...)

}

func calcCommonWritesDeletes(infos []DiskInfo, readQuorum int) (commonWrite, commonDelete uint64) {
	deletes := make([]uint64, len(infos))
	writes := make([]uint64, len(infos))
	for index, di := range infos {
		deletes[index] = di.Metrics.TotalDeletes
		writes[index] = di.Metrics.TotalWrites
	}

	filter := func(list []uint64) (commonCount uint64) {
		maxCnt := 0
		signatureMap := map[uint64]int{}