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Clarify effect of changing erasure coding parity #1365

Open feorlen opened 2 weeks ago

feorlen commented 2 weeks ago

This admonition in operations/install-deploy-manage/deploy-minio-multi-node-multi-drive.rst could be more forceful that changing parity doesn't automagically do anything to existing objects.

.. important::

   While you can change erasure parity settings at any time, objects written with a given parity do **not** automatically update to the new parity settings.

Some additions to consider:

Objects take the parity in effect at the time of the original write operation for the object.

Customer changed their parity and was hoping it would update cluster-wide. Maybe reword would make it more memorable next time somebody is in this situation. 🤞🏻