When attempting to run Podman Commit, an error is thrown: 'too many open files'

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Issue

  • When attempting to run 'Podman Commit' an error is thrown regarding 'too many open files':
[user@host ~]$ podman commit modified-pod backup
Error: error copying layers and metadata for container "0a4cffaf73b9c697c3e968b5a2a65aa853f10d25676d9635d6b5f041e938dd07": Error initializing source containers-storage:modified-pod: error extracting layer "a11b6ac36b3e893c7088c3bbd06af2eb797e69a25b8edc3d85dfe4c0cbedf1b3": readdirent: too many open files

Environment

  • Podman v3.x

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