How to persistently modify ulimits during dracut?

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Issue

  • During boot, the system is hitting a ulimit the needs to be increased
  • The system has more than 1024 /dev/sd* devices, and during boot the nofile limit is being hit
  • How to modify system ulimits used by dracut during the boot process

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

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