i can reproduce similarly on my development environment: ubuntu@saio:~$ dd if=/dev/zero of=/srv/node2/sdb2/containers/767/1d7/bff782c1e5d0944511d817550b5841d7/bff782c1e5d0944511d817550b5841d7.db bs=1024 count=1 oflag=direct 1+0 records in 1+0 records out 1024 bytes (1.0 kB, 1.0 KiB) copied, 0.00116758 s, 877 kB/s ubuntu@saio:~$ swift-container-info /srv/node2/sdb2/containers/767/1d7/bff782c1e5d0944511d817550b5841d7/bff782c1e5d0944511d817550b5841d7.db No handlers could be found for logger "root" Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/bin/swift-container-info", line 6, in exec(compile(open(__file__).read(), __file__, 'exec')) File "/vagrant/swift/bin/swift-container-info", line 47, in run_print_info(args, vars(options)) File "/vagrant/swift/bin/swift-container-info", line 23, in run_print_info print_info('container', *args, **opts) File "/vagrant/swift/swift/cli/info.py", line 382, in print_info info = broker.get_info() File "/vagrant/swift/swift/container/backend.py", line 501, in get_info with self.get() as conn: File "/usr/lib/python2.7/contextlib.py", line 17, in __enter__ return self.gen.next() File "/vagrant/swift/swift/common/db.py", line 371, in get self.possibly_quarantine(*sys.exc_info()) File "/vagrant/swift/swift/common/db.py", line 361, in possibly_quarantine raise sqlite3.DatabaseError(detail) sqlite3.DatabaseError: Quarantined /srv/node2/sdb2/containers/767/1d7/bff782c1e5d0944511d817550b5841d7 to /srv/node2/sdb2/quarantined/containers/bff782c1e5d0944511d817550b5841d7 due to corrupted database ubuntu@saio:~$ ls /srv/node2/sdb2/quarantined/containers/bff782c1e5d0944511d817550b5841d7/ bff782c1e5d0944511d817550b5841d7.db ubuntu@saio:~$ swift-container-info /srv/node2/sdb2/quarantined/containers/bff782c1e5d0944511d817550b5841d7/bff782c1e5d0944511d817550b5841d7.db Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/bin/swift-container-info", line 6, in exec(compile(open(__file__).read(), __file__, 'exec')) File "/vagrant/swift/bin/swift-container-info", line 47, in run_print_info(args, vars(options)) File "/vagrant/swift/bin/swift-container-info", line 23, in run_print_info print_info('container', *args, **opts) File "/vagrant/swift/swift/cli/info.py", line 382, in print_info info = broker.get_info() File "/vagrant/swift/swift/container/backend.py", line 501, in get_info with self.get() as conn: File "/usr/lib/python2.7/contextlib.py", line 17, in __enter__ return self.gen.next() File "/vagrant/swift/swift/common/db.py", line 371, in get self.possibly_quarantine(*sys.exc_info()) File "/vagrant/swift/swift/common/db.py", line 350, in possibly_quarantine renamer(self.db_dir, quar_path, fsync=False) File "/vagrant/swift/swift/common/utils.py", line 1208, in renamer os.rename(old, new) OSError: [Errno 18] Invalid cross-device link ubuntu@saio:~$ find /srv/node2/sdb2/quarantined/ /srv/node2/sdb2/quarantined/ /srv/node2/sdb2/quarantined/containers /srv/node2/sdb2/quarantined/containers/bff782c1e5d0944511d817550b5841d7 /srv/node2/sdb2/quarantined/containers/bff782c1e5d0944511d817550b5841d7/.lock /srv/node2/sdb2/quarantined/containers/bff782c1e5d0944511d817550b5841d7/bff782c1e5d0944511d817550b5841d7.db