Customers in MinIO are allowed LTS on any release they choose to standardize. Production setups seldom change and require maintenance. Hotfix branches are such maintenance branches that allow customers to operate a production cluster without drastic changes to their deployment.

## Backporting a fix

Developer is advised to clone the MinIO source and checkout the MinIO release tag customer is currently on.

```

type EndpointServerPools []PoolEndpoints

// ESCount returns the total number of erasure sets in this cluster
func (l EndpointServerPools) ESCount() (count int) {
	for _, p := range l {
		count += p.SetCount
	}
	return
}

// GetNodes returns a sorted list of nodes in this cluster
func (l EndpointServerPools) GetNodes() (nodes []Node) {
	nodesMap := make(map[string]Node)
	for _, pool := range l {

```

In a given setup, there are `n` MinIO instances talking to `m` KES servers but only `1` central KMS. The most simple setup consists of `1` MinIO server or cluster talking to `1` KMS via `1` KES server.

The main difference between various MinIO-KMS deployments is the KMS implementation. The following table helps you select the right option for your use case:

shred -s 500M /tmp/data/custpartsize
echo "done"

# Add replication site
./mc admin replicate add minio1 minio2 --insecure
# sleep for replication to complete
sleep 30

# Create bucket in source cluster
echo "Create bucket in source MinIO instance"
./mc mb minio1/test-bucket --insecure

# Load objects to source site
echo "Loading objects to source MinIO instance"
set -x

	loadDataUsage := func(ctx context.Context) (u DataUsageInfo, err error) {
		objLayer := newObjectLayerFn()
		if objLayer == nil {
			return
		}

		// Collect cluster level object metrics.
		u, err = loadDataUsageFromBackend(GlobalContext, objLayer)
		return
	}
	return cachevalue.NewFromFunc(1*time.Minute,
		cachevalue.Opts{ReturnLastGood: true},
		loadDataUsage)
}

## Sample `POST` Request

```

with a service account may only reference secrets specified in the service account's secrets field. Kubernetes clusters are only affected if the ServiceAccount admission plugin and the `kubernetes.io/enforce-mountable-secrets` annotation are used together with ephemeral containers.

**Note**: This only impacts the cluster if the ServiceAccount admission plugin is used (most cluster should have this on by default as recommended in https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/access-authn-authz/ad...

## Enabling Parquet Format

Parquet is DISABLED by default since hostile crafted input can easily crash the server.

If you are in a controlled environment where it is safe to assume no hostile content can be uploaded to your cluster you can safely enable Parquet.
To enable Parquet set the environment variable `MINIO_API_SELECT_PARQUET=on`.

## Example using Python API

### 1. Prerequisites

total storage by _(newly_added_servers\*m)_ more drives, taking the total count to _(existing_servers\*m)+(newly_added_servers\*m)_ drives. New object upload requests automatically start using the least used cluster. This expansion strategy works endlessly, so you can perpetually expand your clusters as needed.  When you restart, it is immediate and non-disruptive to the applications. Each group of servers in the command-line is called a pool. There are 2 server pools in this example. New objects are...

 stanConnection, _ = stan.Connect("test-cluster", "test-client", stan.NatsURL("nats://yourusername:yoursecret@0.0.0.0:4222"), stan.SetConnectionLostHandler(func(c stan.Conn, _ error) {
  go func() {
   for {
    // Reconnect if the connection is lost.
    if stanConnection == nil || stanConnection.NatsConn() == nil ||  !stanConnection.NatsConn().IsConnected() {