- 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)
Alex