var erasureEncodeDecodeTests = []struct {
	dataBlocks, parityBlocks   int
	missingData, missingParity int
	reconstructParity          bool
	shouldFail                 bool
}{
	{dataBlocks: 2, parityBlocks: 2, missingData: 0, missingParity: 0, reconstructParity: true, shouldFail: false},
	{dataBlocks: 3, parityBlocks: 3, missingData: 1, missingParity: 0, reconstructParity: true, shouldFail: false},

		}

		// create some test data
		setup, err := newErasureTestSetup(t, test.dataBlocks, test.disks-test.dataBlocks, test.blocksize)
		if err != nil {
			t.Fatalf("Test %d: failed to setup Erasure environment: %v", i, err)
		}
		disks := setup.disks
		erasure, err := NewErasure(t.Context(), test.dataBlocks, test.disks-test.dataBlocks, test.blocksize)
		if err != nil {

	for i, test := range erasureDecodeTests {
		setup, err := newErasureTestSetup(t, test.dataBlocks, test.onDisks-test.dataBlocks, test.blocksize)
		if err != nil {
			t.Fatalf("Test %d: failed to create test setup: %v", i, err)
		}
		erasure, err := NewErasure(t.Context(), test.dataBlocks, test.onDisks-test.dataBlocks, test.blocksize)
		if err != nil {
			t.Fatalf("Test %d: failed to create ErasureStorage: %v", i, err)
		}

	{dataBlocks: 3, onDisks: 6, offDisks: 0, blocksize: int64(blockSizeV2), data: oneMiByte, offset: 1, algorithm: SHA256, shouldFail: false, shouldFailQuorum: false},                                 // 1
	{dataBlocks: 4, onDisks: 8, offDisks: 2, blocksize: int64(blockSizeV2), data: oneMiByte, offset: 2, algorithm: DefaultBitrotAlgorithm, shouldFail: false, shouldFailQuorum: false},                 // 2

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
	}

		// for erasure coding information
		return true
	}
	dataBlocks := fi.Erasure.DataBlocks
	parityBlocks := fi.Erasure.ParityBlocks
	correctIndexes := (fi.Erasure.Index > 0 &&
		fi.Erasure.Index <= dataBlocks+parityBlocks &&
		len(fi.Erasure.Distribution) == (dataBlocks+parityBlocks))
	return ((dataBlocks >= parityBlocks) &&
		(dataBlocks > 0) && (parityBlocks >= 0) &&
		correctIndexes)
}

		}
	}

	if !validMeta.IsValid() {
		// validMeta is invalid because all xl.meta is missing apparently
		// we should figure out if dataDirs are also missing > dataBlocks.
		dataBlocks := (len(metaArr) + 1) / 2
		if notFoundPartsErrs > dataBlocks {
			// Not using parity to ensure that we do not delete
			// any valid content, if any is recoverable. But if
			// notFoundDataDirs are already greater than the data

type ErasureInfo struct {
	// Algorithm is the string representation of erasure-coding-algorithm
	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

// newFileInfo - initializes new FileInfo, allocates a fresh erasure info.
func newFileInfo(object string, dataBlocks, parityBlocks int) (fi FileInfo) {
	fi.Erasure = ErasureInfo{
		Algorithm:    erasureAlgorithm,
		DataBlocks:   dataBlocks,
		ParityBlocks: parityBlocks,
		BlockSize:    blockSizeV2,
		Distribution: hashOrder(object, dataBlocks+parityBlocks),
	}
	return fi
}

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