if err != nil && !errors.Is(err, errConfigNotFound) {
		return err
	}

	z.rebalMu.Lock()
	defer z.rebalMu.Unlock()

	// if not found, we store the memory metadata back
	// when rebalance status changed, will notify all nodes update status to memory, we can treat the memory metadata is the latest status
	if errors.Is(err, errConfigNotFound) {
		r = z.rebalMeta
	}

	switch opts {
	case rebalSaveStoppedAt:

		// Release lock when the metadata is verified, and reader
		// is ready to be read.
		//
		// This is possible to be lock free because
		// - xl.meta for inlined objects has already read the data
		//   into memory, any mutation on xl.meta subsequently is
		//   inconsequential to the overall read operation.
		// - xl.meta metadata is still verified for quorum under lock()
		//   however writing the response doesn't need to serialize

    * This was reported internally by [@rushilsrivastava](https://github.com/rushilsrivastava) as a memory leak when the server had unhandled exceptions that would produce internal server errors, the memory allocated before that point would not be released.