Jump to solution If you are running Podman on btrfs or ZFS you might have encountered this error already: WARN[0001] Found incomplete layer “eff3d43aa72873c05dc21e5511016e8bf7f258b59a0881544c39234c837633fb”, deleting it Sometimes accompanied by errors like Error: looking up container “container1”: exit status 1: “/usr/sbin/zfs fs destroy -r zfspool/var/lib/containers/eff3d43aa72873c05dc21e5511016e8bf7f258b59a0881544c39234c837633fb” => cannot open ‘zfspool/var/lib/containers/eff3d43aa72873c05dc21e5511016e8bf7f258b59a0881544c39234c837633fb’: dataset does not exist or ERRO[0000] Image registry.tld/vendor/image exists in local storage but may be corrupted (remove the image to resolve the issue): exit status 1: “/usr/sbin/zfs fs destroy -r zfspool/var/lib/containers/eff3d43aa72873c05dc21e5511016e8bf7f258b59a0881544c39234c837633fb” => cannot open ‘zfspool/var/lib/containers/eff3d43aa72873c05dc21e5511016e8bf7f258b59a0881544c39234c837633fb’: dataset does not exist