Various embodiments of systems and methods are disclosed for tracking valid regions of a working volume. State information identifies which regions of the working volume are currently valid. When the volume is created, the state information can be initialized to a value that identifies all regions of the volume as being invalid. The invalid regions do not need to be synchronized, since there will not be any need to reconstruct the data within those regions to a particular value. Accordingly, volume initialization, which synchronizes redundant data (e.g., RAID parity or a mirrored copy) with application data in the invalid regions, can be delayed. As the volume is accessed by an application, the redundant data associated with the regions being accessed is synchronized, and the state information is updated to indicate that those regions are valid.