This PR is the first set of changes to move the config
to the backend, the changes use the existing `config.json`
allows it to be migrated such that we can save it in on
backend disks.
In future releases, we will slowly migrate out of the
current architecture.
Fixes#6182
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.