is a single erasure coding unit within a MinIO deployment. An object is sharded within an erasure set. Erasure set size is automatically calculated based on the number of drives. MinIO supports unlimited number of drives but each erasure set can be upto 16 drives and a minimum of 2 drives.

- We limited the number of drives to 16 for erasure set because, erasure code shards more than 16 can become chatty and do not have any performance advantages. Additionally since 16 drive erasure set gives...

All replication failures are picked up by the scanner which runs at a one minute frequency, each time scanning upto a sixteenth of the namespace. Object versions marked `PENDING` or `FAILED` are re-queued for replication.