Tet's Journal: WTF?

leto:/stuff% mkdir mp3
mkdir: cannot create directory `mp3': No space left on device
leto:/stuff% mkdir qwe
leto:/stuff% mv qwe mp3
leto:/stuff% ls -ld mp3
drwxrwxr-x. 2 tet tet 4096 Dec 22 20:53 mp3
leto:/stuff% df -h .
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/leto-stuff 30G 9.9G 19G 35% /stuff
leto:/stuff% df -hi .
Filesystem Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/leto-stuff 1.9M 322 1.9M 1% /stuff

This appears to be 100% repeatable behaviour.

Hmm

[Arker]

Well at a glance I can think of one condition that could cause this error.

Is it possible that a directory with the same name was in that place at some point in the past, and has been deleted?

If that's the case, and some process somewhere still has that thing open, it's not yet deleted, just removed from view. Usually that process will finish up shortly and the deletion will proceed behind the scenes, but you can get a zombie thread that sits there for days or months preventing this from happening. And the e