- Erasure coding used by MinIO is [Reed-Solomon](https://github.com/klauspost/reedsolomon) erasure coding scheme, which has a total shard maximum of 256 i.e 128 data and 128 parity. MinIO design goes beyond this limitation by doing some practical architecture choices.

		XLV1:             false,
		ModTime:          time.Now(),
		Size:             0,
		Mode:             0,
		Metadata:         nil,
		Parts:            nil,
		Erasure: ErasureInfo{
			Algorithm:    ReedSolomon.String(),
			DataBlocks:   4,
			ParityBlocks: 2,
			BlockSize:    10000,
			Index:        1,
			Distribution: []int{1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8},
			Checksums: []ChecksumInfo{{
				PartNumber: 1,

}

// ErasureAlgo defines common type of different erasure algorithms
type ErasureAlgo uint8

// List of currently supported erasure coding algorithms
const (
	invalidErasureAlgo ErasureAlgo = 0
	ReedSolomon        ErasureAlgo = 1
	lastErasureAlgo    ErasureAlgo = 2
)

func (e ErasureAlgo) valid() bool {
	return e > invalidErasureAlgo && e < lastErasureAlgo
}

github.com/klauspost/readahead v1.4.0 h1:w4hQ3BpdLjBnRQkZyNi+nwdHU7eGP9buTexWK9lU7gY=
github.com/klauspost/readahead v1.4.0/go.mod h1:7bolpMKhT5LKskLwYXGSDOyA2TYtMFgdgV0Y8gy7QhA=
github.com/klauspost/reedsolomon v1.12.4 h1:5aDr3ZGoJbgu/8+j45KtUJxzYm8k08JGtB9Wx1VQ4OA=
github.com/klauspost/reedsolomon v1.12.4/go.mod h1:d3CzOMOt0JXGIFZm1StgkyF14EYr3xneR2rNWo7NcMU=
github.com/konsorten/go-windows-terminal-sequences v1.0.1/go.mod h1:T0+1ngSBFLxvqU3pZ+m/2kptfBszLMUkC4ZK/EgS/cQ=

	}
}

func TestXLStorageReadVersionLegacy(t *testing.T) {

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