sixteenth of the namespace), picks up the object for tiering. The data is moved to the remote tier in entirety, leaving only the object metadata on MinIO.

The data on the backend is stored under the `bucket/prefix` specified in the tier configuration with a custom name derived from a randomly generated uuid - e.g. `0b/c4/0bc4fab7-2daf-4d2f-8e39-5c6c6fb7e2d3`. The first two prefixes are characters 1-2,3-4 from the uuid. This format allows tiering to any cloud irrespective of whether the cloud...

versioned delete replication by setting `--replicate delete,delete-marker` while setting up replication configuration using `mc replicate add`. The MinIO implementation is based on V2 configuration, however it has been extended to allow both DeleteMarker replication and replication of versioned deletes with the `DeleteMarkerReplication` and `DeleteReplication` fields in the replication configuration. By default, this is set to `Disabled` unless the user specifies it while adding a replication rule....

  distributed setup are encoded as HTTP(s) URIs.
```

## Common usage

Standalone erasure coded configuration with 4 sets with 16 drives each.

```
minio server dir{1...64}
```

Distributed erasure coded configuration with 64 sets with 16 drives each.

```
minio server http://host{1...16}/export{1...64}
```

## Architecture