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Negative dentries, 20 years later

Negative dentries, 20 years later

Posted Apr 12, 2022 4:39 UTC (Tue) by benjamir (guest, #133607)
Parent article: Negative dentries, 20 years later

Isn't the number of open files (sometimes) user defined?
Why not depend on that (in fractions or multiples)?

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Negative dentries, 20 years later

Posted Apr 12, 2022 16:06 UTC (Tue) by vgoyal (guest, #49279) [Link]

We indeed raise open file limit to 1M by default. But that requires CAP_SYS_RESOURCE. We also have been looking at running virtiofsd unprivileged and don't have CAP_SYS_RESOURCE and hence can't raise the limit.


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