From 9e88941515e03b80255f1f760a3aecd352d7e50c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Harshavardhana <harsha@minio.io>
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2021 12:57:18 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] fix: skip disks that are offline when healing the drives
 (#12931)

---
 cmd/format-erasure.go | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/cmd/format-erasure.go b/cmd/format-erasure.go
index eff43ccef..dd8a0d022 100644
--- a/cmd/format-erasure.go
+++ b/cmd/format-erasure.go
@@ -705,8 +705,10 @@ func saveUnformattedFormat(ctx context.Context, storageDisks []StorageAPI, forma
 		if format == nil {
 			continue
 		}
-		if err := saveFormatErasure(storageDisks[index], format, true); err != nil {
-			return err
+		if storageDisks[index] != nil && storageDisks[index].IsOnline() {
+			if err := saveFormatErasure(storageDisks[index], format, true); err != nil {
+				return err
+			}
 		}
 	}
 	return nil