// Buckets meta prefix.
	bucketMetaPrefix = "buckets"

	// Deleted Buckets prefix.
	deletedBucketsPrefix = ".deleted"

	// ETag (hex encoded md5sum) of empty string.
	emptyETag = "d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e"
)

// Global object layer mutex, used for safely updating object layer.
var globalObjLayerMutex sync.RWMutex

// Global object layer, only accessed by globalObjectAPI.
var globalObjectAPI ObjectLayer