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.

   * value in the manner of {@link Number#floatValue}.
   *
   * <p>Elements are copied from the argument collection as if by {@code collection.toArray()}.
   * Calling this method is as thread-safe as calling that method.
   *
   * @param collection a collection of {@code Number} instances

   */
  public static Collector<Number, StatsAccumulator, Stats> toStats() {
    return Collector.of(
        StatsAccumulator::new,
        (a, x) -> a.add(x.doubleValue()),
        (l, r) -> {
          l.addAll(r);
          return l;
        },
        StatsAccumulator::snapshot,
        Collector.Characteristics.UNORDERED);
  }

  /** Returns the number of values. */
  public long count() {

    }

    /**
     * Server flags from the SMB header.
     */
    public byte sflags;
    /**
     * Server flags2 field from the SMB header.
     */
    public int sflags2;
    /**
     * Maximum number of outstanding multiplex requests.
     */
    public int smaxMpxCount;
    /**
     * Maximum buffer size the server can handle.
     */
    public int maxBufferSize;
    /**

   * value in the manner of {@link Number#shortValue}.
   *
   * <p>Elements are copied from the argument collection as if by {@code collection.toArray()}.
   * Calling this method is as thread-safe as calling that method.
   *
   * @param collection a collection of {@code Number} instances

   * that this method will return a different number of chars than would be returned by reading all
   * of the chars.
   *
   * <p>Additionally, for mutable sources such as {@code StringBuilder}s, a subsequent read may
   * return a different number of chars if the contents are changed.
   *
   * @since 19.0
   */
  public Optional<Long> lengthIfKnown() {

   * that this method will return a different number of chars than would be returned by reading all
   * of the chars.
   *
   * <p>Additionally, for mutable sources such as {@code StringBuilder}s, a subsequent read may
   * return a different number of chars if the contents are changed.
   *
   * @since 19.0
   */
  public Optional<Long> lengthIfKnown() {

   * value in the manner of {@link Number#shortValue}.
   *
   * <p>Elements are copied from the argument collection as if by {@code collection.toArray()}.
   * Calling this method is as thread-safe as calling that method.
   *
   * @param collection a collection of {@code Number} instances

        assertThat(it.hasNext(), is(true));
        assertThat(it.next(), is(sameClass(Integer.class)));

        assertThat(it.hasNext(), is(true));
        assertThat(it.next(), is(sameClass(Number.class)));

        assertThat(it.hasNext(), is(true));
        assertThat(it.next(), is(sameClass(Object.class)));

        assertThat(it.hasNext(), is(not(true)));
    }

    /**
     * @throws Exception

  /**
   * Keeps track of metadata like the number of hash table bits and modifications of this data
   * structure (to make it possible to throw ConcurrentModificationException in the iterator). Note
   * that we choose not to make this volatile, so we do less of a "best effort" to track such
   * errors, for better performance.
   */
  private transient int metadata;

  /** The number of elements contained in the set. */