## How are drives used for Erasure Code?

MinIO divides the drives you provide into erasure-coding sets of *2 to 16* 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.

Type inference and automatic conversion of values is performed based on the context when the value is un-typed (such as when reading CSV data). If present, the CAST function overrides automatic conversion.

The [mc sql](https://docs.min.io/community/minio-object-store/reference/minio-mc/mc-sql.html) command can be used for executing queries using the command line.

	// RoleARN parameter processing: If a role ARN is given in the request, we
	// use that and validate the authentication request. If not, we assume this
	// is an STS request for a claim based IDP (if one is present) and set
	// roleArn = openid.DummyRoleARN.
	//
	// Currently, we do not support multiple claim based IDPs, as there is no
	// defined parameter to disambiguate the intended IDP in this STS request.

	"github.com/minio/pkg/v3/ellipses"
	"github.com/minio/pkg/v3/env"
)

// This file implements and supports ellipses pattern for
// `minio server` command line arguments.

// Endpoint set represents parsed ellipses values, also provides
// methods to get the sets of endpoints.
type endpointSet struct {
	argPatterns []ellipses.ArgPattern
	endpoints   []string   // Endpoints saved from previous GetEndpoints().

	sync.RWMutex

	enabled bool

	// In-memory and persisted multi-site replication state.
	state srState

	iamMetaCache srIAMCache
}

type srState srStateV1

// srStateV1 represents version 1 of the site replication state persistence
// format.
type srStateV1 struct {
	Name string `json:"name"`

	// Peers maps peers by their deploymentID

//
// passes NOATIME flag for reads on Unix systems to avoid atime updates.
func ReadFile(name string) ([]byte, error) {
	// Don't wrap with un-needed buffer.
	// Don't use os.ReadFile, since it doesn't pass NO_ATIME when present.
	f, err := OsOpenFile(name, readMode, 0o666)
	if err != nil {
		return nil, err
	}
	defer f.Close()
	st, err := f.Stat()
	if err != nil {
		return io.ReadAll(f)
	}
	dst := make([]byte, st.Size())

			return
		}
		for _, rl := range lcCfg.Rules {
			updRule, ok := updatedRules[rl.ID]
			// original rule had expiry that is no longer in the new config,
			// or rule is present but missing expiration flags
			if (!rl.Expiration.IsNull() || !rl.NoncurrentVersionExpiration.IsNull()) &&
				(!ok || (updRule.Expiration.IsNull() && updRule.NoncurrentVersionExpiration.IsNull())) {
				expiryRuleRemoved = true

	if err != nil {
		return nil, err
	}

	// Verify if the authToken already contains
	// <Key> <Token> like format, if this is
	// already present we can blindly use the
	// authToken as is instead of adding 'Bearer'
	tokens := strings.Fields(target.args.AuthToken)
	switch len(tokens) {
	case 2:
		req.Header.Set("Authorization", target.args.AuthToken)
	case 1:

	}
	if !audValues.Contains(pCfg.ClientID) {
		// if audience claims is missing, look for "azp" claims.
		// OPTIONAL. Authorized party - the party to which the ID
		// Token was issued. If present, it MUST contain the OAuth
		// 2.0 Client ID of this party. This Claim is only needed
		// when the ID Token has a single audience value and that
		// audience is different than the authorized party. It MAY

		ModTime:   j.getModTime().UnixNano(),
		Signature: j.getSignature(),
		Type:      j.Type,
		Flags:     flags,
		EcN:       ecN,
		EcM:       ecM,
	}
}

// FreeVersion returns true if x represents a free-version, false otherwise.
func (x xlMetaV2VersionHeader) FreeVersion() bool {
	return x.Flags&xlFlagFreeVersion != 0
}

// UsesDataDir returns true if this object version uses its data directory for