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In other embodiments where a secure erase is not received, the existing data is deleted. In one embodiment, deleting the data includes deleting an index entry, address, etc. In a preferred embodiment, the when a data segment token is stored, the corresponding existing data is marked as invalid or otherwise ready for storage recovery. The data may be later recovered in a storage recovery operation, garbage collection operation, etc.

Added by DJM 3 2021