}
      }
    }
  ]
}
```

### v1.3+ versions

Version 1.3 introduces changes to help with [faster metadata reads and updates](https://blog.min.io/minio-versioning-metadata-deep-dive/)

| Entry           | Encoding                    | Content
| ----------------|-----------------------------|----------------------------------------
| xlHeaderVersion | msgp uint                   | header version identifier

# Distributed Server Design Guide [![Slack](https://slack.min.io/slack?type=svg)](https://slack.min.io)

This document explains the design, architecture and advanced use cases of the MinIO distributed server.

## Command-line

```
NAME:
  minio server - start object storage server

USAGE:
  minio server [FLAGS] DIR1 [DIR2..]
  minio server [FLAGS] DIR{1...64}
  minio server [FLAGS] DIR{1...64} DIR{65...128}

DIR: