}

		writer := bytes.NewBuffer(nil)
		_, err = erasure.Decode(context.Background(), writer, bitrotReaders, test.offset, test.length, test.data, nil)
		closeBitrotReaders(bitrotReaders)
		if err != nil && !test.shouldFail {
			t.Errorf("Test %d: should pass but failed with: %v", i, err)
		}
		if err == nil && test.shouldFail {
			t.Errorf("Test %d: should fail but it passed", i)

		return newStreamingBitrotReader(disk, data, bucket, filePath, tillOffset, algo, shardSize)
	}
	return newWholeBitrotReader(disk, bucket, filePath, algo, tillOffset, sum)
}

// Close all the readers.
func closeBitrotReaders(rs []io.ReaderAt) {
	for _, r := range rs {
		if r != nil {
			if br, ok := r.(io.Closer); ok {
				br.Close()
			}
		}
	}
}

// Close all the writers.

		}

		// test case setup is complete - now call Heal()
		err = erasure.Heal(context.Background(), staleWriters, readers, test.size, nil)
		closeBitrotReaders(readers)
		closeBitrotWriters(staleWriters)
		if err != nil && !test.shouldFail {
			t.Errorf("Test %d: should pass but it failed with: %v", i, err)
		}
		if err == nil && test.shouldFail {

			// Heal each part. erasure.Heal() will write the healed
			// part to .minio/tmp/uuid/ which needs to be renamed
			// later to the final location.
			err = erasure.Heal(ctx, writers, readers, partSize, prefer)
			closeBitrotReaders(readers)
			closeBitrotWriters(writers)
			if err != nil {
				return result, err
			}

			// outDatedDisks that had write errors should not be
			// written to for remaining parts, so we nil it out.

		// Note: we should not be defer'ing the following closeBitrotReaders() call as
		// we are inside a for loop i.e if we use defer, we would accumulate a lot of open files by the time
		// we return from this function.
		closeBitrotReaders(readers)
		if err != nil {
			// If we have successfully written all the content that was asked