fuse-overlayfs: Processes fail with error "errno 24: Too many open files"

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • Processes running on a fuse-overlayfs filesystem fail with errno 24, Too many open files
  • If the same processes are executed on the kernel based overlayfs filesystem, there are no returned errors.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux
  • fuse-overlayfs

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