}
	return tillOffset
}

// erasureSelfTest performs a self-test to ensure that erasure
// algorithms compute expected erasure codes. If any algorithm
// produces an incorrect value it fails with a hard error.
//
// erasureSelfTest tries to catch any issue in the erasure implementation
// early instead of silently corrupting data.
func erasureSelfTest() {
	// Approx runtime ~1ms
	var testConfigs [][2]uint8

	// the config file if not defined, set the default one.
	loadRootCredentials()

	// Perform any self-tests
	bootstrapTrace("selftests", func() {
		bitrotSelfTest()
		erasureSelfTest()
		compressSelfTest()
	})

	// Initialize KMS configuration
	bootstrapTrace("handleKMSConfig", handleKMSConfig)

	// Initialize all help
	bootstrapTrace("initHelp", initHelp)