The bottom line is delete markers are a nuisance,
most applications are not version aware and this
has simply complicated the version management.
AWS S3 gave an unnecessary complication overhead
for customers, they need to now manage these
markers by applying ILM settings and clean
them up on a regular basis.
To make matters worse all these delete markers
get replicated as well in a replicated setup,
requiring two ILM settings on each site.
This PR is an attempt to address this inferior
implementation by deviating MinIO towards an
idempotent delete marker implementation i.e
MinIO will never create any more than single
consecutive delete markers.
This significantly reduces operational overhead
by making versioning more useful for real data.
This is an S3 spec deviation for pragmatic reasons.
The current code considers a pool with all root disks to be as part
of a testing environment even if there are other pools with mounted
disks. This will result to illegitimate writing in root disks.
Fix this by simplifing the logic: require MINIO_CI_CD in order to skip
root disk check.
data shards were wrong due to a healing bug
reported in #13803 mainly with unaligned object
sizes.
This PR is an attempt to automatically avoid
these shards, with available information about
the `xl.meta` and actually disk mtime.
Harshavardhana
Anis Elleuch