![Erasure](https://github.com/minio/minio/blob/master/docs/screenshots/erasure-code.jpg?raw=true)

## What is Bit Rot protection?

Bit Rot, also known as data rot or silent data corruption is a data loss issue faced by disk drives today. Data on the drive may silently get corrupted without signaling an error has occurred, making bit rot more dangerous than a permanent hard drive failure.

#!/bin/bash

set -e
# Enable tracing if set.
[ -n "$BASH_XTRACEFD" ] && set -x

function _init() {
	## All binaries are static make sure to disable CGO.
	export CGO_ENABLED=0

	## List of architectures and OS to test coss compilation.
	SUPPORTED_OSARCH="linux/ppc64le linux/mips64 linux/amd64 linux/arm64 linux/s390x darwin/arm64 darwin/amd64 freebsd/amd64 windows/amd64 linux/arm linux/386 netbsd/amd64 linux/mips openbsd/amd64"
}

function _build() {

relying on apocryphal or anecdotal advice.

[MinIO Commercial Licensing](https://min.io/pricing) is the best option for applications that trigger AGPLv3 obligations (e.g. open sourcing your application). Applications using MinIO - or any other OSS-licensed code - without validating their usage do so at their own risk....

export MINIO_KMS_SECRET_KEY=my-minio-key:OSMM+vkKUTCvQs9YL/CVMIMt43HFhkUpqJxTmGl6rYw=
```

> You can choose an arbitrary name for the key - instead of `my-minio-key`.
> Please note that losing the `MINIO_KMS_SECRET_KEY` will cause data loss
> since you will not be able to decrypt the IAM/configuration data anymore.
For distributed MinIO deployments, specify the *same* `MINIO_KMS_SECRET_KEY` for each MinIO server process.