diff --git a/weed/s3api/s3bucket/s3api_bucket.go b/weed/s3api/s3bucket/s3api_bucket.go
index 4fab933d9..238c49efa 100644
--- a/weed/s3api/s3bucket/s3api_bucket.go
+++ b/weed/s3api/s3bucket/s3api_bucket.go
@@ -7,11 +7,19 @@ import (
 	"unicode"
 )
 
+// Reserved because it is the default table/collection name of the filer
+// store; a bucket of the same name collides with it and wedges the bucket
+// (cannot be deleted, breaks fsck) on SQL backends with per-bucket tables.
+const reservedBucketName = "filemeta"
+
 // https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/bucketnamingrules.html
 func VerifyS3BucketName(name string) (err error) {
 	if len(name) < 3 || len(name) > 63 {
 		return fmt.Errorf("bucket name must between [3, 63] characters")
 	}
+	if name == reservedBucketName {
+		return fmt.Errorf("bucket name %q is reserved", name)
+	}
 	for idx, ch := range name {
 		if !(unicode.IsLower(ch) || ch == '.' || ch == '-' || unicode.IsNumber(ch)) {
 			return fmt.Errorf("bucket name can only contain lower case characters, numbers, dots, and hyphens")
diff --git a/weed/s3api/s3bucket/s3api_bucket_test.go b/weed/s3api/s3bucket/s3api_bucket_test.go
index b81ace85e..9d19e4a08 100644
--- a/weed/s3api/s3bucket/s3api_bucket_test.go
+++ b/weed/s3api/s3bucket/s3api_bucket_test.go
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ func Test_verifyBucketName(t *testing.T) {
 		"grehtrry-",
 		"----------",
 		"x@fdsgr032",
+		"filemeta",
 	}
 	for _, invalidName := range invalidS3BucketNames {
 		err := VerifyS3BucketName(invalidName)