Expires              time.Time // Is only used in POST/PUT operations

	DeleteMarker            bool // Is only set in DELETE operations for delete marker replication
	CheckDMReplicationReady bool // Is delete marker ready to be replicated - set only during HEAD
	Tagging                 bool // Is only in GET/HEAD operations to return tagging metadata along with regular metadata and body.

# create a replication policy for repluser
# Remove "s3:GetBucketObjectLockConfiguration" if object locking is not enabled, i.e. bucket was not created with `mc mb --with-lock` option
# Remove "s3:ReplicateDelete" if delete marker replication is not required
cat >replpolicy.json <<EOF
{
 "Version": "2012-10-17",
 "Statement": [
  {
   "Effect": "Allow",
   "Action": [
    "s3:GetReplicationConfiguration",
    "s3:ListBucket",

![delete](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/minio/minio/master/docs/bucket/versioning/versioning_DELETE_versionEnabled.png)

	fivs, err := getAllFileInfoVersions(xlMetaBuf, volume, path, allParts)
	if err != nil {
		return fivs, err
	}
	n := 0
	for _, fi := range fivs.Versions {
		// Filter our tier object delete marker
		if !fi.TierFreeVersion() {
			fivs.Versions[n] = fi
			n++
		} else {
			fivs.FreeVersions = append(fivs.FreeVersions, fi)
		}
	}
	fivs.Versions = fivs.Versions[:n]
	// Update numversions

	// and don't process the If-Modified-Since header.
	if objInfo.ModTime.IsZero() || objInfo.ModTime.Equal(time.Unix(0, 0)) {
		return false
	}

	// If top level is a delete marker proceed to upload.
	if objInfo.DeleteMarker {
		return false
	}

	// Headers to be set of object content is not going to be written to the client.
	writeHeaders := func() {
		// set common headers

		ctx, cancel := context.WithCancel(ctx)
		// one of source/target is s3, skip delete marker and all versions under the same object name.
		s3Type := r.Target.Type == BatchJobReplicateResourceS3 || r.Source.Type == BatchJobReplicateResourceS3

		if err := api.Walk(ctx, r.Source.Bucket, r.Source.Prefix, walkCh, WalkOptions{
			Marker:   lastObject,
			Filter:   selectObj,
			AskDisks: walkQuorum,
		}); err != nil {

	testCases := []struct {
		inputConfig           string
		expectedParsingErr    error
		expectedValidationErr error
		destBucket            string
		sameTarget            bool
	}{
		{ // 1 Invalid delete marker status in replication config

// Special conditions required by MinIO server are as below
//   - delimiter if set should be equal to '/', otherwise the request is rejected.
//   - marker if set should have a common prefix with 'prefix' param, otherwise
//     the request is rejected.
func validateListObjectsArgs(prefix, marker, delimiter, encodingType string, maxKeys int) APIErrorCode {
	// Max keys cannot be negative.
	if maxKeys < 0 {
		return ErrInvalidMaxKeys
	}

}

// xlMetaV2DeleteMarker defines the data struct for the delete marker journal type
type xlMetaV2DeleteMarker struct {
	VersionID [16]byte          `json:"ID" msg:"ID"`                               // Version ID for delete marker
	ModTime   int64             `json:"MTime" msg:"MTime"`                         // Object delete marker modified time

		field, bts, err = msgp.ReadMapKeyZC(bts)
		if err != nil {
			err = msgp.WrapError(err)
			return
		}
		switch msgp.UnsafeString(field) {
		case "Marker":
			z.Marker, bts, err = msgp.ReadStringBytes(bts)
			if err != nil {
				err = msgp.WrapError(err, "Marker")
				return
			}
		case "LatestOnly":
			z.LatestOnly, bts, err = msgp.ReadBoolBytes(bts)
			if err != nil {
				err = msgp.WrapError(err, "LatestOnly")