INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM, RECORDING DEVICE AND RECORDING METHOD FOR INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM, REPRODUCTION DEVICE AND REPRODUCTION METHOD FOR INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM,COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR RECORDING OR REPRODUCTION, AND DATA STRUCTURE CONTAINING CONTROL SIGNAL

摘要

An information recording medium (100) includes: a user data area (108) forstoring recording data; a plurality of temporary defect management areas (104,105) for temporarily recording defect management information (120) as the basefor defect management of a defect in the data area; and a flag area (111) forrecording identification information identifying a temporary defect managementarea containing valid defect management information among the plurality oftemporary defect management areas. The identification information is recordedas the type of a combination pattern of the area defined as a recorded stateby a predetermined rule and the area remaining as a non-recorded state.