many common divisors the algorithm chooses the minimum amounts of erasure sets possible for a erasure set size of any N*.  In the example with 1024 drives - 4, 8, 16 are GCD factors. With 16 drives we get a total of 64 possible sets, with 8 drives we get a total of 128 possible sets, with 4 drives we get a total of 256 possible sets. So algorithm automatically chooses 64 sets, which is *16* 64 = 1024* drives in total.

- *If total number of nodes are of odd number then GCD algorithm provides...

This document explains the design approach of server side bucket replication. If you're looking to get started with replication, we suggest you go through the [Bucket replication guide](https://github.com/minio/minio/blob/master/docs/bucket/replication/README.md) first.

## Overview