Conditioning device and method for drying andor controlling the temperature of a ballast bed of a railway track system, wherein the railway track system has sleepers resting on the ballast bed and rails resting on the sleepers, wherein the conditioning device has a bogie for moving the conditioning device. In response to read and write requests for data blocks at logical storage locations, a block mapping device determines physical storage locations on the storage devices. Configuration data is removed from a system registry for modules marked as obsolete.