respBytes, apiErr, errMsg := globalAllHealState.LaunchNewHealSequence(nh, objectAPI)
			hr := healResp{respBytes, apiErr, errMsg}
			respCh <- hr
		}()
	}

	// Due to the force-starting functionality, the Launch
	// call above can take a long time - to keep the
	// connection alive, we start sending whitespace
	keepConnLive(w, r, respCh)
}

// getAggregatedBackgroundHealState returns the heal state of disks.

	ahs.Lock()
	defer ahs.Unlock()

	for _, ep := range healLocalDisks {
		ahs.healLocalDisks[ep] = false
	}
}

func (ahs *allHealState) periodicHealSeqsClean(ctx context.Context) {
	// Launch clean-up routine to remove this heal sequence (after
	// it ends) from the global state after timeout has elapsed.
	periodicTimer := time.NewTimer(time.Minute * 5)
	defer periodicTimer.Stop()

	for {
		select {