Logical units of allocation may be designated as overhead and unallocated and made unavailable for use. During one or more write operations, when one or more logical unit is invalidated, one or more of the unallocated overhead logical units may be designated as available for use and one or more of the invalidated logical units may be designated as overhead.

 
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