diff -Nru ceph-0.80.8/debian/changelog ceph-0.80.8/debian/changelog
--- ceph-0.80.8/debian/changelog	2015-01-23 10:29:11.000000000 -0600
+++ ceph-0.80.8/debian/changelog	2015-02-17 15:02:13.000000000 -0600
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+ceph (0.80.8-0ubuntu1.14.04.1) trusty; urgency=medium
+
+  * Increase file limit to prevent hitting the file limit on large
+    installations (LP: #1420647)
+
+ -- Dave Chiluk <chiluk@canonical.com>  Tue, 17 Feb 2015 14:36:49 -0600
+
 ceph (0.80.8-0ubuntu0.14.04.1) trusty; urgency=low
 
   * New upstream stable point release (LP: #1413917).
diff -Nru ceph-0.80.8/debian/patches/increaseFileLimit.patch ceph-0.80.8/debian/patches/increaseFileLimit.patch
--- ceph-0.80.8/debian/patches/increaseFileLimit.patch	1969-12-31 18:00:00.000000000 -0600
+++ ceph-0.80.8/debian/patches/increaseFileLimit.patch	2015-02-17 14:51:20.000000000 -0600
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+Description: Increase file limit to prevent hitting the file limit 
+
+Upstream commit text
+"
+commit 5773a374d0089ce824dec0a0c74a76e57806cc43
+Author: Sage Weil <sage@redhat.com>
+Date:   Mon Jul 28 09:27:20 2014 -0700
+
+    upstart/ceph-osd.conf: bump nofile limit up by 10x
+
+    This should ensure that we don't hit this limit on all but the very biggest
+    clusters.  We seen it hit on a ~500 OSD dumpling cluster.
+
+    Backport: firefly, dumpling
+    Signed-off-by: Sage Weil <sage@redhat.com>
+"
+
+Author: Dave Chiluk <chiluk@canonical.com>
+Bug-Ubuntu: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1420647
+Origin: https://github.com/ceph/ceph/commit/5773a374d0089ce824dec0a0c74a76e57806cc43
+---
+--- ceph-0.80.8.orig/src/upstart/ceph-osd.conf
++++ ceph-0.80.8/src/upstart/ceph-osd.conf
+@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ stop on runlevel [!2345] or stopping cep
+ respawn
+ respawn limit 5 30
+ 
+-limit nofile 32768 32768
++limit nofile 327680 327680
+ 
+ pre-start script
+     set -e
diff -Nru ceph-0.80.8/debian/patches/series ceph-0.80.8/debian/patches/series
--- ceph-0.80.8/debian/patches/series	2015-01-23 03:07:04.000000000 -0600
+++ ceph-0.80.8/debian/patches/series	2015-02-17 14:49:08.000000000 -0600
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 virtualenv-never-download
 modules.patch
+increaseFileLimit.patch