Patent ID: 8621269

Claim:
A method comprises: sending list digest requests to a set of dispersed storage (DS) units, wherein a list digest request of the list digest requests is requesting a representation of a slice name information list regarding encoded data slices stored by a DS unit of the set of DS units; receiving list digest responses from at least some of the set of DS units; determining whether an inconsistency exists between first and second list digest responses of the list digest responses; and when the inconsistency exists between first and second list digest responses of the list digest responses: requesting at least a portion of each of the slice name information lists from first and second DS units of the set of DS units, wherein the first DS unit provided the first list digest response and the second DS unit provided the second list digest response; and identifying a slice name information error associated with the inconsistency based on the at least a portion of each of the slices name information lists of the first and second DS units.