This is a consolidation effort, avoiding usage
of naked strings in codebase. Whenever possible
use constants which can be repurposed elsewhere.
This also fixes `goconst ./...` reported issues.
Current code always appends to a file only if 1byte or
more was sent on the wire was affecting both PutObject
and PutObjectPart uploads.
This patch fixes such a situation and resolves#3385
This is needed to validate if the `format.json` indeed exists
when a fresh node is brought online.
This wrapped implementation also connects to the remote node
by attempting a re-login. Subsequently after a successful
connect `format.json` is validated as well.
Fixes#3207
These messages based on our prep stage during XL
and prints more informative message regarding
drive information.
This change also does a much needed refactoring.