Information recording medium, recording and/or reproducing method, and recording and/or reproducing apparatus

摘要

An information recording medium, a recording and/or reproducing method, and a recording and/or reproducing apparatus. The recording and/or reproducing apparatus includes: a writing and/or reading unit which records data on and/or reads data from the information recording medium including a lead-in area, a data area including a user data area in which user data is recorded and a spare area in which replacement data updating the user data is recorded, and a lead-out area; and a controller which reads replacement enforcement flag information indicating a status of logical overwriting according to which the replacement data is recorded in the spare area from one of the lead-in area and the lead-out area and controls the writing and/or reading unit to update the user data with reference to the replacement enforcement flag information.