two parity drives, 100 MiB file takes only approximately 114 MiB.

Below is a list of data/parity drives and corresponding _approximate_ storage space usage on a 16 drive MinIO deployment. The field _storage
usage ratio_ is simply the drive space used by the file after erasure-encoding, divided by actual file size.

| Total Drives (N) | Data Drives (D) | Parity Drives (P) | Storage Usage Ratio |

- **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**.

}

func (m *MetricValues) setDriveBasicMetrics(drive madmin.Disk, labels []string) {
	m.Set(driveUsedBytes, float64(drive.UsedSpace), labels...)
	m.Set(driveFreeBytes, float64(drive.AvailableSpace), labels...)
	m.Set(driveTotalBytes, float64(drive.TotalSpace), labels...)
	m.Set(driveUsedInodes, float64(drive.UsedInodes), labels...)
	m.Set(driveFreeInodes, float64(drive.FreeInodes), labels...)

			return fmt.Errorf("%s drive is already being used in another erasure deployment. (Number of drives specified: %d but the number of drives found in the %s drive's format.json: %d)",
				disks[i], len(formats), humanize.Ordinal(i+1), len(formatErasure.Erasure.Sets)*len(formatErasure.Erasure.Sets[0]))
		}
		if len(formatErasure.Erasure.Sets[0]) != setDriveCount {

drives.  Therefore, the number of drives you present must be a multiple of one of these numbers.  Each object is written to a single erasure-coding set.

Minio uses the largest possible EC set size which divides into the number of drives given. For example, *18 drives* are configured as *2 sets of 9 drives*, and *24 drives* are configured as *2 sets of 12 drives*.  This is true for scenarios when running MinIO as a standalone erasure coded deployment. In [distributed setup however node (affinity)...

				Deleted: v.Created,
			})
		}
		return true
	})

	return buckets, nil
}

func cloneDrives(drives map[string]StorageAPI) []StorageAPI {
	copyDrives := make([]StorageAPI, 0, len(drives))
	for _, drive := range drives {
		copyDrives = append(copyDrives, drive)
	}
	return copyDrives
}

func getBucketInfoLocal(ctx context.Context, bucket string, opts BucketOptions) (BucketInfo, error) {

			// Bucket or prefix/directory not found
			hr.Before.Drives[i] = madmin.HealDriveInfo{Endpoint: drive, State: madmin.DriveStateMissing}
			hr.After.Drives[i] = madmin.HealDriveInfo{Endpoint: drive, State: madmin.DriveStateMissing}
		default:
			hr.Before.Drives[i] = madmin.HealDriveInfo{Endpoint: drive, State: madmin.DriveStateCorrupt}
			hr.After.Drives[i] = madmin.HealDriveInfo{Endpoint: drive, State: madmin.DriveStateCorrupt}
		}
	}

### 1.2 Host Multiple Tenants on Multiple Drives (Erasure Code)

Use the following commands to host 3 tenants on multiple drives:

```sh
minio server --address :9001 /disk{1...4}/data/tenant1
minio server --address :9002 /disk{1...4}/data/tenant2
minio server --address :9003 /disk{1...4}/data/tenant3
```

| Minimum number of drives per server when server count is 1      | 02            |
| Minimum number of drives per server when server count is 2 or 3 | 01            |
| Minimum number of drives per server when server count is 4      | 01            |
| Maximum number of drives per server                             | no-limit      |
| Read quorum                                                     | N/2           |

		if len(disks) == healing {
			// All drives in this erasure set were reformatted for some reasons, abort healing and mark it as successful
			healingLogIf(ctx, errors.New("all drives are in healing state, aborting.."))
			return nil
		}

		disks = disks[:len(disks)-healing] // healing drives are always at the end of the list

		if len(disks) < er.setDriveCount/2 {