drives.  Therefore, the number of drives you present must be a multiple of one of these numbers.  Each object is written to a single erasure-coding set.

Minio uses the largest possible EC set size which divides into the number of drives given. For example, *18 drives* are configured as *2 sets of 9 drives*, and *24 drives* are configured as *2 sets of 12 drives*.  This is true for scenarios when running MinIO as a standalone erasure coded deployment. In [distributed setup however node (affinity)...

If one or more drives are offline at the start of a PutObject or NewMultipartUpload operation the object will have additional data
protection bits added automatically to provide the regular safety for these objects up to 50% of the number of drives.
This will allow normal write operations to take place on systems that exceed the write tolerance.

- 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 you tolerance of 8 drives per object by default which is plenty in any practical scenario.

	if askDisks == -1 {
		newDisks := getQuorumDisks(disks, infos, (len(disks)+1)/2)
		if newDisks != nil {
			// If we found disks signature in quorum, we proceed to list
			// from a single drive, shuffling of the drives is subsequently.
			disks = newDisks
			askDisks = 1
		} else {
			// If we did not find suitable disks, perform strict quorum listing
			// as no disk agrees on quorum anymore.

//go:debug x509negativeserial=1
package tests_test

import (
	"log"
	"math/rand"
	"os"
	"path/filepath"
	"time"

	"gorm.io/driver/gaussdb"
	"gorm.io/driver/mysql"
	"gorm.io/driver/postgres"
	"gorm.io/driver/sqlite"
	"gorm.io/driver/sqlserver"
	"gorm.io/gorm"
	"gorm.io/gorm/logger"
	. "gorm.io/gorm/utils/tests"
)

var DB *gorm.DB
var (

| Minimum number of drives per server when server count is 1      | 02            |
| Minimum number of drives per server when server count is 2 or 3 | 01            |
| Minimum number of drives per server when server count is 4      | 01            |
| Maximum number of drives per server                             | no-limit      |
| Read quorum                                                     | N/2           |

package tests_test

import (
	"context"
	"database/sql"
	"database/sql/driver"
	"encoding/json"
	"errors"
	"fmt"
	"reflect"
	"regexp"
	"strconv"
	"testing"
	"time"

	"gorm.io/gorm"
	"gorm.io/gorm/clause"
	. "gorm.io/gorm/utils/tests"
)

func TestScannerValuer(t *testing.T) {
	DB.Migrator().DropTable(&ScannerValuerStruct{})
	if err := DB.Migrator().AutoMigrate(&ScannerValuerStruct{}); err != nil {

	yval := reflect.ValueOf(y)
	if xval.Kind() == reflect.Ptr && xval.IsNil() ||
		yval.Kind() == reflect.Ptr && yval.IsNil() {
		return false
	}

	if valuer, ok := x.(driver.Valuer); ok {
		x, _ = valuer.Value()
	}
	if valuer, ok := y.(driver.Valuer); ok {
		y, _ = valuer.Value()
	}
	return reflect.DeepEqual(x, y)
}

func ToString(value interface{}) string {
	switch v := value.(type) {
	case string:

		{"error not equal", errors.New("1"), errors.New("2"), false},
		{"driver.Valuer equal", ModifyAt{Time: now, Valid: true}, ModifyAt{Time: now, Valid: true}, true},
		{"driver.Valuer not equal", ModifyAt{Time: now, Valid: true}, ModifyAt{Time: now.Add(time.Second), Valid: true}, false},
		{"driver.Valuer equal (ptr to nil ptr)", (*ModifyAt)(nil), &ModifyAt{}, false},
	}
	for _, test := range assertEqualTests {

### 1.2 Host Multiple Tenants on Multiple Drives (Erasure Code)

Use the following commands to host 3 tenants on multiple drives:

```sh
minio server --address :9001 /disk{1...4}/data/tenant1
minio server --address :9002 /disk{1...4}/data/tenant2
minio server --address :9003 /disk{1...4}/data/tenant3
```