How to run Minio in legacy FS mode again

Has your bare-metal / single-node Minio deployment started creating .xl.meta files instead of the files you actually intended to transfer? This is happening because of a significant update / deprecation in June 2022.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://geek-cookbook.funkypenguin.co.nz/blog/2022/09/01/run-minio-in-legacy-filesystem-mode/