Comment 26 for bug 1183322

Jacob,

You are right. According to http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1212925/on-linux-set-maximum-open-files-to-unlimited-possible it is impossible to set the open files limit to 'unlimited', and the maximum possible value is 1048576 which is a hard-coded constant in the Linux kernel.

Which means an option to disable the "rename aware" functionality is the only possible solution in your case. Reported as bug #1222062. Let's keep this bug as a documentation request to document the current state of things.