The reason is any function relying on `getLoadBalancedQuorumDisks`
cannot possibly have an idempotent behavior.
The problem comes from given a set of N disks returning just a
shuffled N/2 disks. In case of a scenario where we have N/2
number of failed disks, the returned value of `getLoadBalancedQuorumDisks`
is not equal to the same failed disks so essentially calls using such
disks might succeed or fail randomly at different intervals in time.
This proposal change is we move to `getLoadBalancedDisks()`
and use the shuffled N disks as a whole. Since most of the time we might
hit a good disk since we are not reducing our solution space. This
also provides consistent behavior for all the functions which rely
on shuffled disks.
Fixes#2242
* XL: Refactor of xl.PutObjectPart and erasureCreateFile.
* GetCheckSum and AddCheckSum methods for xlMetaV1
* Simple unit test case for erasureCreateFile()
This change is needed to make reading from objects future proof
in-terms of handling online disks. Our current counter is not
based on affirmative knowledge and relies on arithmetic sequence
which can lead to bugs.
Using modTime simplifies the understanding of `xl.json` and future
tooling / debugging of the format.
Each metadata ops have a list of errors which can be
ignored, this is essentially needed when
- disks are not found
- disks are found but cannot be accessed (permission denied)
- disks are there but fresh disks were added
This is needed since we don't have healing code in place where
it would have healed the fresh disks added.
Fixes#2072
AppendFile ensures that it appends the entire buffer. Returns
an error otherwise, this patch removes the necessity for the
caller to look for 'n' return on short writes.
Ref #1893
Strided erasure distribution uses a new randomized
block distribution for each Put operation. This
information is captured inside `xl.json` for subsequent
Get operations.
* xl/selfheal: selfheal based on read quorum on GET
* xl: getReadableDisks() also returns whether self-heal is needed so that this info can be used by ReadFile/SelfHeal/StatFile.
* xl: trigger selfheal from StatFile.
