Western Digital Technologies, Inc.

Duckhoi Koo

Kwangyoung Lee

Kartheek Reddy Daida

Disclosed are systems and methods for providing read-modify-writes during relocation of overlapping of logical blocks. A method includes receiving a host write command from a host interface. The method also includes translating a logical block address for the host write command to a physical address on a device memory. The physical address corresponds to a plurality of indirection units. The method also includes, in accordance with a determination that the physical address does not correspond to an aligned address, processing a read-modify-write operation for one or more indirection units of the plurality of indirection units during a relocation, in accordance with a determination that a relocation block has an overlapping indirection unit with the one or more indirection units.

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Duckhoi Koo