diff --git a/swift/obj/reconstructor.py b/swift/obj/reconstructor.py
index 0ee2afb..8134a48 100644
--- a/swift/obj/reconstructor.py
+++ b/swift/obj/reconstructor.py
@@ -260,14 +260,9 @@ class ObjectReconstructor(Daemon):
                                           rebuilt_fragment_iter)

     def _reconstruct(self, policy, fragment_payload, frag_index):
-        # XXX with jerasure this doesn't work if we need to rebuild a
-        # parity fragment, and not all data fragments are available
-        # segment = policy.pyeclib_driver.reconstruct(
-        #     fragment_payload, [frag_index])[0]
-
-        # for safety until pyeclib 1.0.7 we'll just use decode and encode
-        segment = policy.pyeclib_driver.decode(fragment_payload)
-        return policy.pyeclib_driver.encode(segment)[frag_index]
+        segment = policy.pyeclib_driver.reconstruct(
+            fragment_payload, [frag_index])[0]
+        return segment

     def make_rebuilt_fragment_iter(self, responses, path, policy, frag_index):
         """