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Jacob,
It is possible to make that functionality optional, but that would open another possibility for users to shoot themselves in the foot. Similar to the --no-lock option, it is easy to forget that the option is passed to xtrabackup from some backup script, and then discover that a backup is broken simply because the "no renames" condition does not hold anymore.
What is not clear to me is the reasons why people insist on implementing it instead of accepting the suggested workaround: raise the OS limit on file descriptors accordingly. That looks like a simple and feasible solution to me. Am I missing something?