# MinIO Erasure Code Quickstart Guide [![Slack](https://slack.min.io/slack?type=svg)](https://slack.min.io)

MinIO protects data against hardware failures and silent data corruption using erasure code and checksums. With the highest level of redundancy, you may lose up to half (N/2) of the total drives and still be able to recover the data.

## What is Erasure Code?

		Files:  s.Files,
		Ffree:  uint64(s.Ffree),
		FSType: getFSType(s.Fstypename[:]),
	}
	if info.Free > info.Total {
		return info, fmt.Errorf("detected free space (%d) > total drive space (%d), fs corruption at (%s). please run 'fsck'", info.Free, info.Total, path)
	}
	info.Used = info.Total - info.Free
	return info, nil
}

// GetDriveStats returns IO stats of the drive by its major:minor

		Files:  uint64(s.Files),
		Ffree:  uint64(s.Ffree),
		FSType: getFSType(s.Fstr[:]),
	}
	if info.Free > info.Total {
		return info, fmt.Errorf("detected free space (%d) > total drive space (%d), fs corruption at (%s). please run 'fsck'", info.Free, info.Total, path)
	}
	info.Used = info.Total - info.Free
	return info, nil
}

// GetDriveStats returns IO stats of the drive by its major:minor

		Files:  uint64(s.Files),
		Ffree:  uint64(s.Ffree),
		FSType: string(s.Fstypename[:]),
	}
	if info.Free > info.Total {
		return info, fmt.Errorf("detected free space (%d) > total drive space (%d), fs corruption at (%s). please run 'fsck'", info.Free, info.Total, path)
	}
	info.Used = info.Total - info.Free
	return info, nil
}

// GetDriveStats returns IO stats of the drive by its major:minor

	// https://github.com/minio/minio/issues/8035
	// XFS can show wrong values at times error out
	// in such scenarios.
	if info.Free > info.Total {
		return info, fmt.Errorf("detected free space (%d) > total drive space (%d), fs corruption at (%s). please run 'fsck'", info.Free, info.Total, path)
	}
	info.Used = info.Total - info.Free
	return info, nil
}

// GetDriveStats returns IO stats of the drive by its major:minor

		Files:  uint64(s.F_files),
		Ffree:  uint64(s.F_ffree),
		FSType: getFSType(s.F_fstypename[:]),
	}
	if info.Free > info.Total {
		return info, fmt.Errorf("detected free space (%d) > total drive space (%d), fs corruption at (%s). please run 'fsck'", info.Free, info.Total, path)
	}
	info.Used = info.Total - info.Free
	return info, nil
}

// GetDriveStats returns IO stats of the drive by its major:minor

		Files:  s.Files,
		Ffree:  s.Ffree,
		FSType: getFSType(s.Fstypename[:]),
	}
	if info.Free > info.Total {
		return info, fmt.Errorf("detected free space (%d) > total drive space (%d), fs corruption at (%s). please run 'fsck'", info.Free, info.Total, path)
	}
	info.Used = info.Total - info.Free
	return info, nil
}

// GetDriveStats returns IO stats of the drive by its major:minor

	// https://github.com/minio/minio/issues/8035
	// XFS can show wrong values at times error out
	// in such scenarios.
	if info.Free > info.Total {
		return info, fmt.Errorf("detected free space (%d) > total drive space (%d), fs corruption at (%s). please run 'fsck'", info.Free, info.Total, path)
	}
	info.Used = info.Total - info.Free
	return info, nil
}

// GetDriveStats returns IO stats of the drive by its major:minor

		uintptr(unsafe.Pointer(&lpTotalNumberOfFreeBytes)))

	if uint64(lpTotalNumberOfFreeBytes) > uint64(lpTotalNumberOfBytes) {
		return info, fmt.Errorf("detected free space (%d) > total drive space (%d), fs corruption at (%s). please run 'fsck'",
			uint64(lpTotalNumberOfFreeBytes), uint64(lpTotalNumberOfBytes), path)
	}

	info = Info{
		Total:  uint64(lpTotalNumberOfBytes),
		Free:   uint64(lpTotalNumberOfFreeBytes),

	// https://github.com/minio/minio/issues/8035
	// XFS can show wrong values at times error out
	// in such scenarios.
	if info.Free > info.Total {
		return info, fmt.Errorf("detected free space (%d) > total drive space (%d), fs corruption at (%s). please run 'fsck'", info.Free, info.Total, path)
	}
	info.Used = info.Total - info.Free

	if firstTime {
		bfs, err := blockdevice.NewDefaultFS()
		if err == nil {
			devName := ""