localRepository.pathOfLocalRepositoryMetadata(repoMetadata, remoteRepository));

        if (metadataFile.exists()) {
            Metadata metadata;

            try {
                metadata = readMetadata(metadataFile);
            } catch (RepositoryMetadataReadException e) {
                if (getLogger().isDebugEnabled()) {
                    getLogger().warn(e.getMessage(), e);
                } else {

		return nil
	}

	// Fast exit track to check if we are listing an object with
	// a trailing slash, this will avoid to list the object content.
	if HasSuffix(opts.BaseDir, SlashSeparator) {
		metadata, err := s.readMetadata(ctx, pathJoin(volumeDir,
			opts.BaseDir[:len(opts.BaseDir)-1]+globalDirSuffix,
			xlStorageFormatFile))
		diskHealthCheckOK(ctx, err)
		if err == nil {
			// if baseDir is already a directory object, consider it

	disk, err := newLocalXLStorage(tmpDir)
	if err != nil {
		t.Fatal(err)
	}

	disk.MakeVol(t.Context(), volume)
	if _, err := disk.readMetadata(t.Context(), pathJoin(tmpDir, volume, object)); err != errFileNameTooLong {
		t.Fatalf("Unexpected error from readMetadata - expect %v: got %v", errFileNameTooLong, err)
	}

	buf, err := readXLMetaNoData(f, stat.Size())
	if err != nil {
		return nil, stat.ModTime().UTC(), fmt.Errorf("%w -> %s", err, itemPath)
	}
	return buf, stat.ModTime().UTC(), err
}

func (s *xlStorage) readMetadata(ctx context.Context, itemPath string) ([]byte, error) {
	return xioutil.WithDeadline[[]byte](ctx, globalDriveConfig.GetMaxTimeout(), func(ctx context.Context) ([]byte, error) {