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In some embodiments, the contextual data format may allow data context to be determined (and/or reconstructed) based upon the contents of the non-volatile memory media, and independently of other metadata, such as the arbitrary, any-to-any mappings discussed above. Since the media location of data is independent of the logical address of the data, it may be inefficient (or impossible) to determine the context of data based solely upon the media location or media address of the data. Storing data in a contextual format on the non-volatile memory media may allow data context to be determined without reference to other metadata. For example, the contextual data format may allow the metadata to be reconstructed based only upon the contents of the non-volatile memory media (e.g., reconstruct the any-to-any mappings between logical addresses and media locations).

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