## What is Erasure Code?

      r._elem.remove(testsuite._elem)
  if len(r) > 0:  # pylint: disable=g-explicit-length-test
    result += r

# Insert the number of failures for each test to help identify flakes
# need to clarify for shard
for p in result._elem.xpath(".//error | .//failure"):
  key = re.sub(r"0x\w+", "", p.getparent().get("name", "")) + p.text
  p.text = runfiles_matcher.sub("[testroot]/", p.text)

          // yes, that's a lot of sinks!
          sinks.add(new Sink(chunkSize, bufferSize));
          // For convenience, testing only with big endianness, to match DataOutputStream.
          // I regard highly unlikely that both the little endianness tests above and this one
          // passes, and there is still a little endianness bug lurking around.
        }
      }

      Control control = new Control();

				fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "%v: error on self-test [d:%d,p:%d]: want %#v, got %#v\n", algo, conf[0], conf[1], a, b)
				ok = false
				continue
			}
			// Delete first shard and reconstruct...
			first := encoded[0]
			encoded[0] = nil
			failOnErr(e.DecodeDataBlocks(encoded))
			if a, b := first, encoded[0]; !bytes.Equal(a, b) {

- Erasure coding used by MinIO is [Reed-Solomon](https://github.com/klauspost/reedsolomon) erasure coding scheme, which has a total shard maximum of 256 i.e 128 data and 128 parity. MinIO design goes beyond this limitation by doing some practical architecture choices.