{dataBlocks: 5, parityBlocks: 5, missingData: 0, missingParity: 1, reconstructParity: true, shouldFail: false},
	{dataBlocks: 6, parityBlocks: 6, missingData: 0, missingParity: 2, reconstructParity: true, shouldFail: false},
	{dataBlocks: 7, parityBlocks: 7, missingData: 1, missingParity: 1, reconstructParity: false, shouldFail: false},

type Erasure struct {
	encoder                  func() reedsolomon.Encoder
	dataBlocks, parityBlocks int
	blockSize                int64
}

// NewErasure creates a new ErasureStorage.
func NewErasure(ctx context.Context, dataBlocks, parityBlocks int, blockSize int64) (e Erasure, err error) {
	// Check the parameters for sanity now.
	if dataBlocks <= 0 || parityBlocks < 0 {
		return e, reedsolomon.ErrInvShardNum
	}

	Algorithm string `json:"algorithm"`
	// DataBlocks is the number of data blocks for erasure-coding
	DataBlocks int `json:"data"`
	// ParityBlocks is the number of parity blocks for erasure-coding
	ParityBlocks int `json:"parity"`
	// BlockSize is the size of one erasure-coded block
	BlockSize int64 `json:"blockSize"`
	// Index is the index of the current disk
	Index int `json:"index"`

	var buf bytes.Buffer
	msgp.Encode(&buf, &v)

		Size:             0,
		Mode:             0,
		Metadata:         nil,
		Parts:            nil,
		Erasure: ErasureInfo{
			Algorithm:    ReedSolomon.String(),
			DataBlocks:   4,
			ParityBlocks: 2,
			BlockSize:    10000,
			Index:        1,
			Distribution: []int{1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8},
			Checksums: []ChecksumInfo{{
				PartNumber: 1,
				Algorithm:  HighwayHash256S,
				Hash:       nil,

		Size:             0,
		Mode:             0,
		Metadata:         nil,
		Parts:            nil,
		Erasure: ErasureInfo{
			Algorithm:    ReedSolomon.String(),
			DataBlocks:   4,
			ParityBlocks: 2,
			BlockSize:    10000,
			Index:        1,
			Distribution: []int{1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8},
			Checksums: []ChecksumInfo{{
				PartNumber: 1,
				Algorithm:  HighwayHash256S,
				Hash:       nil,
			}},

func (e Erasure) Heal(ctx context.Context, writers []io.Writer, readers []io.ReaderAt, totalLength int64, prefer []bool) (derr error) {
	if len(writers) != e.parityBlocks+e.dataBlocks {
		return errInvalidArgument
	}

	reader := newParallelReader(readers, e, 0, totalLength)
	if len(readers) == len(prefer) {
		reader.preferReaders(prefer)
	}
	defer reader.Done()