A sample msgpack-JSON `xl.meta`, you can debug the content inside `xl.meta` using [xl-meta.go](https://github.com/minio/minio/tree/master/docs/debugging#decoding-metadata) program.

```json
{
  "Versions": [
    {
      "Type": 1,
      "V2Obj": {
        "ID": "KWUs8S+8RZq4Vp5TWy6KFg==",
        "DDir": "X3pDAFu8Rjyft7QD6t7W5g==",
        "EcAlgo": 1,
        "EcM": 2,

replication, the replication configuration for replica metadata sync, delete marker replication and delete replication should match to avoid inconsistent picture between the clusters. It is not recommended to turn on asymmetric replication - for e.g. if three sites A,B,C are participating in replication, it would be better to avoid replication setups like A -> [B, C], B -> A. In this particular example, an object uploaded to A will be replicated to B,C. If replica metadata sync is turned on in site B, any...

MinIO places new objects in server pools based on proportionate free space, per pool. Following pseudo code demonstrates this behavior.

```go
func getAvailablePoolIdx(ctx context.Context) int {
        serverPools := z.getServerPoolsAvailableSpace(ctx)