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- Explicit "replication_mode" configuration parameters that takes either "none", "2" or "3" as values, instead of letting user configure replication factor themselves. These are presets whose corresponding replication/quorum values can be found in replication/mode.rs - Explicit support for single-node and two-node deployments (number of nodes must be at least "replication_mode", with "none" we can have only one node) - Ring is now stored much more compactly with 256*8 + n*32 bytes, instead of 256*32 bytes - Support for gateway-only nodes that do not store data (these nodes still need a metadata_directory to store the list of bucket and keys since those are stored on all nodes; it also technically needs a data_directory to start but it will stay empty unless we have bugs)
Garage 
Garage is a lightweight S3-compatible distributed object store, with the following goals:
- As self-contained as possible
- Easy to set up
- Highly resilient to network failures, network latency, disk failures, sysadmin failures
- Relatively simple
- Made for multi-datacenter deployments
Non-goals include:
- Extremely high performance
- Complete implementation of the S3 API
- Erasure coding (our replication model is simply to copy the data as is on several nodes, in different datacenters if possible)
Our main use case is to provide a distributed storage layer for small-scale self hosted services such as Deuxfleurs.