Btrfs devel - Nov 2010 - bug: cannot delete an empty directory (the directory is NOT a subvolume)

I think this can be best explained by an example. Suppose that you have 
the following setup:

         mkfs.btrfs /dev/somedisk
         mount /dev/somedisk /mnt/btrfs
         mkdir /mnt/btrfs/aaa
         btrfs subvolume snapshot /mnt/btrfs /mnt/btrfs/aaa/bbb

So /mnt/btrfs/aaa is a ordinary directory containaing /mnt/btrfs/aaa/bbb 
which is a subvolume. The latter contains /mnt/btrfs/aaa/bbb/aaa which 
is a directory. This directory is empty (ls -a does not find anything) 
but it cannot be deleted:

# rmdir /mnt/btrfs/aaa/bbb/aaa
rmdir: failed to remove `/mnt/btrfs/aaa/bbb/aaa'': Directory not empty

As it turns out, it contains a "ghost" directory named bbb that is not
reported by ls -a but can be deleted by rmdir:

# rmdir /mnt/btrfs/aaa/bbb/aaa/bbb
(no errors, status code 0)

Now we can also delete /mnt/btrfs/aaa/bbb/aaa:

# rmdir /mnt/btrfs/aaa/bbb/aaa
(no errors, status code 0)
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