MinIO server supports storage class in erasure coding mode. This allows configurable data and parity drives per object.

This page is intended as a summary of MinIO Erasure Coding. For a more complete explanation, see <https://min.io/docs/minio/linux/operations/concepts/erasure-coding.html>.

## Overview

	msgLine2Fmt := " Update: %s "

	// Calculate length *without* color coding: with ANSI terminal
	// color characters, the result is incorrect.
	line1Length := len(fmt.Sprintf(msgLine1Fmt, newerThan))
	line2Length := len(fmt.Sprintf(msgLine2Fmt, updateString))

	// Populate lines with color coding.
	line1InColor := fmt.Sprintf(msgLine1Fmt, color.YellowBold(newerThan))

## How are drives used for Erasure Code?

MinIO divides the drives you provide into erasure-coding sets of *2 to 16* drives.  Therefore, the number of drives you present must be a multiple of one of these numbers.  Each object is written to a single erasure-coding set.

## Explore Further

- [MinIO Erasure Code QuickStart Guide](https://min.io/docs/minio/linux/operations/concepts/erasure-coding.html)
- [Kubernetes Documentation](https://kubernetes.io/docs/home/)

		var hint string
		if endpoint.URL != nil {
			hint = fmt.Sprintf("Drive '%s' does not support O_DIRECT flags, MinIO erasure coding requires filesystems with O_DIRECT support", endpoint.Path)
		} else {
			hint = "Drives do not support O_DIRECT flags, MinIO erasure coding requires filesystems with O_DIRECT support"
		}
		logger.Fatal(config.ErrUnsupportedBackend(err).Hint(hint), "Unable to initialize backend")

	// systemTargets is the set of enabled loggers.
	// Must be immutable at all times.
	// Can be swapped to another while holding swapMu
	systemTargets  = []Target{}
	swapSystemMuRW sync.RWMutex

	// auditTargets is the list of enabled audit loggers
	// Must be immutable at all times.
	// Can be swapped to another while holding swapMu
	auditTargets  = []Target{}
	swapAuditMuRW sync.RWMutex

	// This is always set represent /dev/console target

	// this value is kept here to calculate the max API
	// requests based on RAM size for existing content.
	blockSizeV1 = 10 * humanize.MiByte

	// Block size used in erasure coding version 2.
	blockSizeV2 = 1 * humanize.MiByte

	// Buckets meta prefix.
	bucketMetaPrefix = "buckets"

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

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
from xml.etree import cElementTree
from xml.etree.cElementTree import ParseError

if hasattr(cElementTree, 'ParseError'):
    _ETREE_EXCEPTIONS = (ParseError, AttributeError, ValueError, TypeError)
else:
    _ETREE_EXCEPTIONS = (SyntaxError, AttributeError, ValueError, TypeError)

_STS_NS = {'sts': 'https://sts.amazonaws.com/doc/2011-06-15/'}


class STSElement(object):

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
import json
# standard.
import os

import certifi
# Dependencies
import urllib3
from botocore.credentials import CredentialProvider, RefreshableCredentials
from botocore.exceptions import CredentialRetrievalError
from dateutil.parser import parse

from .sts_element import STSElement


class ClientGrantsCredentialProvider(CredentialProvider):
    """

* [MinIO Erasure Code QuickStart Guide](https://min.io/docs/minio/container/operations/concepts/erasure-coding.html)...