"hash"
	"io"
)

// Implementation to calculate bitrot for the whole file.
type wholeBitrotWriter struct {
	disk      StorageAPI
	volume    string
	filePath  string
	shardSize int64 // This is the shard size of the erasure logic
	hash.Hash       // For bitrot hash
}

func (b *wholeBitrotWriter) Write(p []byte) (int, error) {
	err := b.disk.AppendFile(context.TODO(), b.volume, b.filePath, p)
	if err != nil {

				// Reading first time on this disk, hence the buffer needs to be allocated.
				// Subsequent reads will reuse this buffer.
				p.buf[bufIdx] = make([]byte, p.shardSize)
			}
			// For the last shard, the shardsize might be less than previous shard sizes.
			// Hence the following statement ensures that the buffer size is reset to the right size.
			p.buf[bufIdx] = p.buf[bufIdx][:p.shardSize]
			n, err := rr.ReadAt(p.buf[bufIdx], p.offset)

          // 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();

## 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();

							verID = fmt.Sprintf("null/%08x", header.Signature)
							v0 = verID
						}
						idx := ei.V2Obj.EcIndex
						filemap[file][verID] = fmt.Sprintf("%s/shard-%02d-of-%02d", verID, idx, ei.V2Obj.EcN+ei.V2Obj.EcM)
						filemap[file][verID+".json"] = buf.String()
					}
					return nil
				})
				if err != nil {
					return nil, err
				}

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				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.