// global console system to send console logs to
	// registered listeners
	globalConsoleSys *HTTPConsoleLoggerSys

	// All unique drives for this deployment
	globalEndpoints EndpointServerPools
	// All unique nodes for this deployment
	globalNodes []Node

	// The name of this local node, fetched from arguments
	globalLocalNodeName    string
	globalLocalNodeNameHex string

	<-globalOSSignalCh
}

// Initialize object layer with the supplied disks, objectLayer is nil upon any error.
func newObjectLayer(ctx context.Context, endpointServerPools EndpointServerPools) (newObject ObjectLayer, err error) {
	return newErasureServerPools(ctx, endpointServerPools)

		}
	}
	return reply
}

// Construct a list of offline disks information for a given node.
// If offlineHost is empty, do it for the local disks.
func getOfflineDisks(offlineHost string, endpoints EndpointServerPools) []madmin.Disk {
	var offlineDisks []madmin.Disk
	for _, pool := range endpoints {
		for _, ep := range pool.Endpoints {
			if offlineHost == "" && ep.IsLocal || offlineHost == ep.Host {

// The two slices will point to the same clients,
// but 'all' will contain nil entry for local client.
// The 'all' slice will be in the same order across the cluster.
func newPeerRestClients(endpoints EndpointServerPools) (remote, all []*peerRESTClient) {
	if !globalIsDistErasure {
		// Only useful in distributed setups
		return nil, nil
	}

	hosts := endpoints.hostsSorted()