if decoded[j] == nil {
						t.Errorf("Test %d: failed to reconstruct data shard %d", i, j)
					}
				}
			}

			decodedData := new(bytes.Buffer)
			if _, err = writeDataBlocks(t.Context(), decodedData, decoded, test.dataBlocks, 0, int64(len(data))); err != nil {
				t.Errorf("Test %d: failed to write data blocks: %v", i, err)
			}
			if !bytes.Equal(decodedData.Bytes(), data) {

			// For all errors that cannot be reconstructed fail the read operation.
			return -1, err
		}

		if err = e.DecodeDataBlocks(bufs); err != nil {
			return -1, err
		}

		n, err := writeDataBlocks(ctx, writer, bufs, e.dataBlocks, blockOffset, blockLength)
		if err != nil {
			return -1, err
		}

		bytesWritten += n
	}

	if bytesWritten != length {
		return bytesWritten, errLessData
	}