corrupted: kmailrc contains html code ?!

[konold at mail.kde.org]

On Sun, Jul 21, 2002 at 11:52:18AM +0200, Rolf Magnus wrote:
> On Saturday 20 July 2002 17:59, Till Krech wrote:
> 
> > > Filesystem corruption?
> > >
> > > (had a crash in the past?)
> >
> > Could be a reason. Sometimes my machine halts when logging out or switching
> > to another virtual terminal. This seems to be related to the NVIDIA kernel
> > module. But this wouldn't explain the trimmed lines.
> 
> Do you by any chance use reiserfs? It tends to write "strange stuff" into 
> files on a system crash.

I can verify the very same problem with kmail, SuSE and reiserfs after a
crash. I am wondering though why kmailrc is affected because basically
it is read only and according to the reiserfs docs the corrupted files
may only happen if the file is beeing written during the crash.

Yours,
--martin