* [alpha] Improve Flex volume deployment

  * Flex volume driver deployment is simplified in the following ways:

    * New driver files can now be automatically discovered and initialized without requiring a kubelet or controller-manager restart.

    * A sample DaemonSet to deploy Flexvolume drivers is now available.

* [prototype] Volume snapshots

	"github.com/minio/pkg/v3/mimedb"
	ftp "goftp.io/server/v2"
)

var _ ftp.Driver = &ftpDriver{}

// ftpDriver implements ftpDriver to store files in minio
type ftpDriver struct {
	endpoint string
}

// NewFTPDriver implements ftp.Driver interface
func NewFTPDriver() ftp.Driver {
	return &ftpDriver{endpoint: fmt.Sprintf("127.0.0.1:%s", globalMinioPort)}
}

		buffer := make([]byte, test.blocksize, 2*test.blocksize)
		writers := make([]io.Writer, len(disks))
		for i, disk := range disks {
			writers[i] = newBitrotWriter(disk, "", "testbucket", "testobject", erasure.ShardFileSize(test.size), test.algorithm, erasure.ShardSize())
		}
		_, err = erasure.Encode(t.Context(), bytes.NewReader(data), writers, buffer, erasure.dataBlocks+1)
		closeBitrotWriters(writers)
		if err != nil {

	}

	return bytesWritten, derr
}

// Heal reads from readers, reconstruct shards and writes the data to the writers.
func (e Erasure) Heal(ctx context.Context, writers []io.Writer, readers []io.ReaderAt, totalLength int64, prefer []bool) (derr error) {
	if len(writers) != e.parityBlocks+e.dataBlocks {
		return errInvalidArgument
	}

	reader := newParallelReader(readers, e, 0, totalLength)

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				disks[i], len(formats), humanize.Ordinal(i+1), len(formatErasure.Erasure.Sets)*len(formatErasure.Erasure.Sets[0]))
		}
		if len(formatErasure.Erasure.Sets[0]) != setDriveCount {

			inlineBuffers[i] = bytes.NewBuffer(buf[:0])
			defer grid.PutByteBuffer(buf)
			writers[i] = newStreamingBitrotWriterBuffer(inlineBuffers[i], DefaultBitrotAlgorithm, erasure.ShardSize())
		}
	}

	n, erasureErr := erasure.Encode(ctx, data, writers, buffer, writeQuorum)
	closeErrs := closeBitrotWriters(writers)
	if erasureErr != nil {
		return ObjectInfo{}, toObjectErr(erasureErr, minioMetaBucket, key)
	}

on 16 drive MinIO deployment. If you use eight data and eight parity drives, the file space usage will be approximately twice, i.e. 100 MiB
file will take 200 MiB space. But, if you use ten data and six parity drives, same 100 MiB file takes around 160 MiB. If you use 14 data and
two parity drives, 100 MiB file takes only approximately 114 MiB.

		}
		writers := make([]io.Writer, len(disks))
		for i, disk := range disks {
			if disk == OfflineDisk {
				continue
			}
			writers[i] = newBitrotWriter(disk, "", "testbucket", "object", erasure.ShardFileSize(int64(len(data[test.offset:]))), test.algorithm, erasure.ShardSize())
		}
		n, err := erasure.Encode(t.Context(), bytes.NewReader(data[test.offset:]), writers, buffer, erasure.dataBlocks+1)

		buffer := make([]byte, test.blocksize, 2*test.blocksize)
		writers := make([]io.Writer, len(disks))
		for i, disk := range disks {
			writers[i] = newBitrotWriter(disk, "", "testbucket", "object", erasure.ShardFileSize(test.data), writeAlgorithm, erasure.ShardSize())
		}
		n, err := erasure.Encode(t.Context(), bytes.NewReader(data), writers, buffer, erasure.dataBlocks+1)
		closeBitrotWriters(writers)
		if err != nil {