if cardinality <= 0 {
		// Returns an empty int slice for cardinality < 0.
		return nil
	}

	nums := make([]int, cardinality)
	keyCrc := crc32.Checksum([]byte(key), crc32.IEEETable)

	start := int(keyCrc % uint32(cardinality))
	for i := 1; i <= cardinality; i++ {
		nums[i-1] = 1 + ((start + i) % cardinality)
	}
	return nums
}

var (
	file, object, deploymentID, prefix string
	setCount, shards                   int

		// Returns an empty int slice for cardinality < 0.
		return nil
	}

	nums := make([]int, cardinality)
	keyCrc := crc32.Checksum([]byte(key), crc32.IEEETable)

	start := int(keyCrc % uint32(cardinality))
	for i := 1; i <= cardinality; i++ {
		nums[i-1] = 1 + ((start + i) % cardinality)
	}
	return nums
}

// Reads all `xl.meta` metadata as a FileInfo slice.