Cannot create files/directories that have numeric only names

[Jon Stanley]

A few more things:

1)  Does it affect all filesystems (this seems to be implied, but I'm not sure)
2)  Does it only affect ext3 filesystems - can you unmount one of
them, and mount it up ext2, and see if the problem persists.  If so,
recreate the ext3 journals.
3)  If the answer to 2 is no, does it affect other filesystem types
(mount -t tmpfs -o size=32m tmpfs /mnt/tmpfs)?
4)  Does it affect newly created filesystems - you can create a
ramdisk filesystem like mkfs.ext3 /dev/ram2 ; mount /dev/ram2 /media

On Dec 5, 2007 9:12 PM, Jon Stanley <jonstanley at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Dec 5, 2007 8:59 PM, Madan Thapa <madan.feedback at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Gary,
> >
> > A kernel upgrade fixed the issue for a while but I ended up with an OS
> > reload.
>
> Kernel upgrade seems odd.  This came up once before in #rhel on
> freenode, and we were all stumped.  I believe the user in that case
> was running the latest kernel, had no aliases, etc to rule out all the
> "usual suspects".  Sounds like some type of weird filesystem
> corruption.  Have you tried to force fsck on the filesystem?
>
> I am *really* interested in what this ends up being, if it's ever found out.
>
> -Jon
>