If synchronous replication is configured above, replication is attempted right away prior to returning the PUT object response. In the event that the replication target is down, the `X-Amz-Replication-Status` is marked as `FAILED` and resynced with target when the scanner runs again.

*A noticeable trait of this expansion is that it chooses unique hosts such the setup provides maximum protection and availability.*

- Choosing an erasure set for the object is decided during `PutObject()`, object names are used to find the right erasure set using the following pseudo code.

```go
// hashes the key returning an integer.
func sipHashMod(key string, cardinality int, id [16]byte) int {
        if cardinality <= 0 {
                return -1

`xl.meta` carries first 8 bytes an XL header which describes the current format and the format version,
allowing the unmarshaller's to automatically use the right data structures to parse the subsequent content in the stream.

### v1.0

| Entry     | Encoding    | Content
| ----------|-------------|----------------------------------------