xl: ReedSolomon code fix small file erasure bug. (#1431)

For files less than 'dataBlocks', erasure encoding would fail
with short data due to a bug in the implementation itself.

Relax the error return, even a single byte can be properly
erasure coded without issues.

Fixes #1413
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Harshavardhana
2016-05-01 15:30:40 -07:00
parent e05aa762a9
commit ba7a55c321
3 changed files with 12 additions and 14 deletions

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@@ -57,8 +57,8 @@ type Encoder interface {
// If the data size isn't dividable by the number of shards,
// the last shard will contain extra zeros.
//
// There must be at least the same number of bytes as there are data shards,
// otherwise ErrShortData will be returned.
// There must be at least 1 byte otherwise ErrShortData will be
// returned.
//
// The data will not be copied, except for the last shard, so you
// should not modify the data of the input slice afterwards.
@@ -457,16 +457,15 @@ var ErrShortData = errors.New("not enough data to fill the number of requested s
// If the data size isn't divisible by the number of shards,
// the last shard will contain extra zeros.
//
// There must be at least the same number of bytes as there are data shards,
// otherwise ErrShortData will be returned.
// There must be at least 1 byte otherwise ErrShortData will be
// returned.
//
// The data will not be copied, except for the last shard, so you
// should not modify the data of the input slice afterwards.
func (r reedSolomon) Split(data []byte) ([][]byte, error) {
if len(data) < r.DataShards {
if len(data) == 0 {
return nil, ErrShortData
}
// Calculate number of bytes per shard.
perShard := (len(data) + r.DataShards - 1) / r.DataShards