reedsolomon

var (

	// ErrInvShardNum will be returned by New, if you attempt to create an
	// Encoder where either data or parity shards is zero or less.
	ErrInvShardNum = errors.New("cannot create Encoder with zero or less data/parity shards")

	// ErrMaxShardNum will be returned by New, if you attempt to create an
	// Encoder where data and parity shards are bigger than the order of
	// GF(2^8).
	ErrMaxShardNum = errors.New("cannot create Encoder with more than 256 data+parity shards")

	// ErrTooFewShards is returned if too few shards were given to
	// Encode/Reconstruct. It will also be returned from Reconstruct if there
	// were too few shards to reconstruct the missing data.
	ErrTooFewShards = errors.New("too few shards given")

	// ErrShardNoData will be returned if there are no shards, or if the length
	// of all shards is zero.
	ErrShardNoData = errors.New("no shard data")

	// ErrShardSize is returned if shard length isn't the same for all shards.
	ErrShardSize = errors.New("shard sizes do not match")

	// ErrShortData will be returned by Split(), if there isn't enough data to
	// fill the number of shards.
	ErrShortData = errors.New("not enough data to fill the number of requested shards")

	// ErrReconstructRequired is returned if too few data shards are intact and
	// a reconstruction is required before you can successfully join the shards.
	ErrReconstructRequired = errors.New("reconstruction required as one or more required data shards are nil")
)