I have a CentOS 6x server and running a Java application on it, the application is using a mount point /javapp which is an EXT4 filesystem.
suddenly I got the following error in the system logs:
kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device
kernel: dm-2: rw=0, want=34359697536, limit=112984064
I found this error may result from one of two possible scenarios:
- storage resize (LVM or SAN for example)
- corrupter filesystem
All the pointers suggests a filesystem corruption since I didn't change the size of any backing disks.
My question is, does an application able to corrupt a filesystem?