for i, disk := range disks {
			writers[i] = newBitrotWriter(disk, "", "testbucket", "object", erasure.ShardFileSize(test.data), writeAlgorithm, erasure.ShardSize())
		}
		n, err := erasure.Encode(t.Context(), bytes.NewReader(data), writers, buffer, erasure.dataBlocks+1)
		closeBitrotWriters(writers)
		if err != nil {
			t.Fatalf("Test %d: failed to create erasure test file: %v", i, err)
		}
		if n != test.data {

		writers := make([]io.Writer, len(disks))
		for i, disk := range disks {
			writers[i] = newBitrotWriter(disk, "", "testbucket", "testobject", erasure.ShardFileSize(test.size), test.algorithm, erasure.ShardSize())
		}
		_, err = erasure.Encode(t.Context(), bytes.NewReader(data), writers, buffer, erasure.dataBlocks+1)
		closeBitrotWriters(writers)
		if err != nil {
			t.Fatalf("Test %d: failed to create random test data: %v", i, err)
		}

			if disk == OfflineDisk {
				continue
			}
			writers[i] = newBitrotWriter(disk, "", "testbucket", "object", erasure.ShardFileSize(int64(len(data[test.offset:]))), test.algorithm, erasure.ShardSize())
		}
		n, err := erasure.Encode(t.Context(), bytes.NewReader(data[test.offset:]), writers, buffer, erasure.dataBlocks+1)
		closeBitrotWriters(writers)
		if err != nil && !test.shouldFail {

	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++

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	return fmt.Errorf("%w (offline-disks=%d/%d)", writeErr, countErrs(p.errs, errDiskNotFound), len(p.writers))
}

// Encode reads from the reader, erasure-encodes the data and writes to the writers.
func (e *Erasure) Encode(ctx context.Context, src io.Reader, writers []io.Writer, buf []byte, quorum int) (total int64, err error) {
	writer := &multiWriter{
		writers:     writers,
		writeQuorum: quorum,

	if err != errInvalidArgument {
		t.Fatalf("Expecting error, got %s", err)
	}

	// Initializes all erasure disks
	storageDisks, format, err := waitForFormatErasure(true, endpoints, 1, 1, 16, "")
	if err != nil {
		t.Fatalf("Unable to format drives for erasure, %s", err)
	}

	ep := PoolEndpoints{Endpoints: endpoints}

	parity, err := ecDrivesNoConfig(16)
	if err != nil {

			continue
		}
		// check if erasure distribution order matches the index
		// position if this is not correct we discard the disk
		// and move to collect others
		if distribution[i] != meta.Erasure.Index {
			inconsistent++ // keep track of inconsistent entries
			continue
		}
		shuffledDisks[meta.Erasure.Index-1] = disks[i]
		shuffledPartsMetadata[meta.Erasure.Index-1] = metaArr[i]
	}

			latestFileInfo = partsMetadata[index]
			count++
		}
	}

	if !latestFileInfo.IsValid() {
		return FileInfo{}, errErasureReadQuorum
	}

	if count < latestFileInfo.Erasure.DataBlocks {
		return FileInfo{}, errErasureReadQuorum
	}

	return latestFileInfo, nil
}

// validates functionality provided to find most common
// time occurrence from a list of time.