// Put all buckets into channel.
	bucketCh := make(chan BucketInfo, len(buckets))

	// Shuffle buckets to ensure total randomness of buckets, being scanned.
	// Otherwise same set of buckets get scanned across erasure sets always.
	// at any given point in time. This allows different buckets to be scanned
	// in different order per erasure set, this wider spread is needed when
	// there are lots of buckets with different order of objects in them.

	"github.com/minio/minio/internal/logger"
)

// Erasure - erasure encoding details.
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.

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// ShardSize - returns actual shared size from erasure blockSize.
func (e ErasureInfo) ShardSize() int64 {
	return ceilFrac(e.BlockSize, int64(e.DataBlocks))
}

// IsValid - tells if erasure info fields are valid.
func (fi FileInfo) IsValid() bool {
	if fi.Deleted {
		// Delete marker has no data, no need to check
		// for erasure coding information
		return true
	}
	dataBlocks := fi.Erasure.DataBlocks

		fi.Size = 1 << 20
		metaArr := make([]FileInfo, N)
		parities := make([]int, N)
		for i := range N {
			fi.Erasure.Index = i + 1
			metaArr[i] = fi
			parities[i] = parity
			if i < agree {
				continue
			}
			metaArr[i].Erasure.Index = 0 // creates invalid fi on remaining drives
			parities[i] = -1             // invalid fi are assigned parity -1
		}
		res.metaArr = metaArr

	shardSize     int64
	shardFileSize int64
	buf           [][]byte
	readerToBuf   []int
	stashBuffer   []byte
}

// newParallelReader returns parallelReader.
func newParallelReader(readers []io.ReaderAt, e Erasure, offset, totalLength int64) *parallelReader {
	r2b := make([]int, len(readers))
	for i := range r2b {
		r2b[i] = i
	}
	bufs := make([][]byte, len(readers))
	shardSize := int(e.ShardSize())
	var b []byte

	_, err = xl.PutObject(ctx, "bucket", "dir/obj", mustGetPutObjReader(t, bytes.NewReader([]byte("abcd")), int64(len("abcd")), "", ""), ObjectOptions{})
	if err != nil {
		t.Fatalf("Erasure Object upload failed: <ERROR> %s", err)
	}
	for _, test := range testCases {
		test := test
		t.Run("", func(t *testing.T) {
			_, err := xl.GetObjectInfo(ctx, "bucket", "dir/obj", ObjectOptions{})

	for i, meta := range partsMetadata {
		if !meta.IsValid() {
			// Since for majority of the cases erasure.Index matches with erasure.Distribution we can
			// consider the offline disks as consistent.
			continue
		}
		if !meta.Deleted {
			if len(meta.Erasure.Distribution) != len(onlineDisks) {
				// Erasure distribution seems to have lesser
				// number of items than number of online disks.
				inconsistent++

		errs, latestMeta, filterDisksByETag, bucket, object, scanMode)

	var erasure Erasure
	if !latestMeta.Deleted && !latestMeta.IsRemote() {
		// Initialize erasure coding
		erasure, err = NewErasure(ctx, latestMeta.Erasure.DataBlocks,
			latestMeta.Erasure.ParityBlocks, latestMeta.Erasure.BlockSize)
		if err != nil {
			return result, err
		}
	}