Memory system and method for controlling nonvolatile memory

Abstract

According to one embodiment, a nonvolatile memory system includes a memory including a first memory and a second memory, the first memory including memory strings, the memory strings including memory cell transistors connected in series; and a memory controller which compresses a failure string position information of the first memory, which stores the compressed failure string position information in the second memory, and which decompresses the compressed failure string position information stored in the second memory.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.