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# 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?

	Mode    uint32    `json:"mode"`
}

// ErasureInfo holds erasure coding and bitrot related information.
type ErasureInfo struct {
	// Algorithm is the string representation of erasure-coding-algorithm
	Algorithm string `json:"algorithm"`
	// DataBlocks is the number of data blocks for erasure-coding
	DataBlocks int `json:"data"`
	// ParityBlocks is the number of parity blocks for erasure-coding
	ParityBlocks int `json:"parity"`

function start_minio_erasure() {
	"${MINIO[@]}" server "${WORK_DIR}/erasure-disk1" "${WORK_DIR}/erasure-disk2" "${WORK_DIR}/erasure-disk3" "${WORK_DIR}/erasure-disk4" >"$WORK_DIR/erasure-minio.log" 2>&1 &

	"${WORK_DIR}/mc" ready verify
}

function start_minio_erasure_sets() {
	export MINIO_ENDPOINTS="${WORK_DIR}/erasure-disk-sets{1...32}"
	"${MINIO[@]}" server >"$WORK_DIR/erasure-minio-sets.log" 2>&1 &

	"${WORK_DIR}/mc" ready verify
}

| Erasure Set Size | Default Parity (EC:N) |
|------------------|-----------------------|
| 5 or fewer       |                 EC:2  |
| 6-7              |                 EC:3  |
| 8 or more        |                 EC:4  |

		t.Fatal(err)
	}
	if formatV3.Erasure.This != m.Erasure.Disk {
		t.Fatalf("expected drive uuid: %s, got: %s", m.Erasure.Disk, formatV3.Erasure.This)
	}
	if len(formatV3.Erasure.Sets) != 1 {
		t.Fatalf("expected single set after migrating from v1 to v3, but found %d", len(formatV3.Erasure.Sets))
	}
	if !reflect.DeepEqual(formatV3.Erasure.Sets[0], m.Erasure.JBOD) {

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require distributed deploying MinIO with Erasure Coding. For extended development and production, deploy MinIO with Erasure Coding enabled - specifically,
with a *minimum* of 4 drives per MinIO server. See [MinIO Erasure Code Overview](https://min.io/docs/minio/linux/operations/concepts/erasure-coding.html)
for more complete documentation.

### Stable

	if unMarshalXLMeta.Erasure.ParityBlocks != jsoniterXLMeta.Erasure.ParityBlocks {
		t.Errorf("Expected the erasure parity blocks to be %v, but got %v.", unMarshalXLMeta.Erasure.ParityBlocks, jsoniterXLMeta.Erasure.ParityBlocks)
	}
	if unMarshalXLMeta.Erasure.BlockSize != jsoniterXLMeta.Erasure.BlockSize {
		t.Errorf("Expected the erasure block size to be %v, but got %v.", unMarshalXLMeta.Erasure.BlockSize, jsoniterXLMeta.Erasure.BlockSize)
	}