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and pull request templates, and the docs/ tree all present Silo as the product.
The Grafana dashboards under docs/metrics/prometheus/grafana/ have their panel
titles and descriptions rebranded while every minio_* query, label and
expression is left alone, so existing alerts and recording rules keep matching.

The distinction the review demanded is applied per hit rather than by
search-and-replace:

- Product and command text becomes Silo and silo: install and run instructions,
  systemd examples, compose services, download links, badges.
- Protocol and interface text keeps MinIO: MINIO_* variables, minio_* metrics,
  x-minio-* headers, /minio/* routes, .minio.sys, arn:minio, and API field and
  error names.
- Attribution keeps MinIO and gains the fork's own: the AGPL obligations,
  original copyright, CREDITS and NOTICE stay, with the modification notice
  added alongside rather than replacing them.
- Historical and third-party references are left as facts, not rewritten for
  brand tidiness.

README and README_ZH each carry an explicit non-affiliation notice, document
the side-by-side package migration including the
/etc/systemd/system/silo.service.d/10-legacy-user.conf drop-in for keeping a
legacy UID/GID, and state that recursive chown is never performed. The trademark
attribution uses the policy's approved "based on MinIO technology" wording, not
the shortened form the policy rejects.

github.com/pgsty/minio links are left in place and labelled transitional. The
repository has not been renamed, and rewriting them now would produce documented
URLs that 404 until the cutover; they change in the cutover commit together with
the goreleaser release target, the OCI source label and the raw-content branch.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-06 08:49:30 +08:00

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Erasure code sizing guide

Toy Setups

Capacity constrained environments, Silo will work but not recommended for production.

servers drives (per node) stripe_size parity chosen (default) tolerance for reads (servers) tolerance for writes (servers)
1 1 1 0 0 0
1 4 4 2 0 0
4 1 4 2 2 1
5 1 5 2 2 2
6 1 6 3 3 2
7 1 7 3 3 3

Minimum System Configuration for Production

servers drives (per node) stripe_size parity chosen (default) tolerance for reads (servers) tolerance for writes (servers)
4 2 8 4 2 1
5 2 10 4 2 2
6 2 12 4 2 2
7 2 14 4 2 2
8 1 8 4 4 3
8 2 16 4 2 2
9 2 9 4 4 4
10 2 10 4 4 4
11 2 11 4 4 4
12 2 12 4 4 4
13 2 13 4 4 4
14 2 14 4 4 4
15 2 15 4 4 4
16 2 16 4 4 4

If one or more drives are offline at the start of a PutObject or NewMultipartUpload operation the object will have additional data protection bits added automatically to provide the regular safety for these objects up to 50% of the number of drives. This will allow normal write operations to take place on systems that exceed the write tolerance.

This means that in the examples above the system will always write 4 parity shards at the expense of slightly higher disk usage.