From: jvorbrueggen@mediasec.de   
      
   Does anybody have more technical info, or pointers to such, on the flash   
   file system used by the MERs? The reason I ask is that JPL's explanation   
   for Spirit's problem states that mounting such a file system uses system   
   memory proportional to the number of files in it - at least, that seems   
   to be the leading theory supported by experimentation. It would be the   
   first file system I know of with that property, but perhaps the requirement   
   to reduce write cycles on the flash lead to it. It also seems strange that   
   the MER software engineers have so little understanding on exactly how   
   the flash file system works that they cannot say with authority whether   
   this theory is correct or not.   
      
   	Jan   
      
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