## What is Erasure Code?

nevis","saint lucia","saint martin","saint pierre and miquelon","saint vincent and the grenadines","samoa","san marino","sao tome and principe","saudi arabia","senegal","serbia","seychelles","sierra leone","singapore","sint maarten","slovakia","slovenia","solomon islands","somalia","south africa","south georgia and the south sandwich islands","south sudan","spain","sri lanka","sudan","suriname","svalbard and jan mayen","swaziland","sweden","switzerland","syria","taiwan","tajikistan","tanzania","thailand",...

Expansion of ellipses and choice of erasure sets based on this expansion is an automated process in MinIO. Here are some of the details of our underlying erasure coding behavior.

- Erasure coding used by MinIO is [Reed-Solomon](https://github.com/klauspost/reedsolomon) erasure coding scheme, which has a total shard maximum of 256 i.e 128 data and 128 parity. MinIO design goes beyond this limitation by doing some practical architecture choices.