[gdal-dev] vrt and too many open files error

[Julien Michel]

Dear all,

I have a VRT file, which I generated by a script I wrote, that simply 
mosaics 2750 tiles (images of the same size). I can not read back this 
vrt file with gdal, it says:

$ gdalinfo cloud_plain.vrt

ERROR 4: Too many open files
gdalinfo failed - unable to open 'cloud_plain.vrt'.

Reading this tracker [1], I think it should not complain ? Note that 
this happens when parsing the vrt file, not actually reading data. If I 
gdal_translate only a small portion spanning a few tiles, it will still 
complain. Shall I file a bug report or is this behavior expected ?

Regards,

Julien


[1] https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/6604



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Julien MICHEL
CNES - DSO/SI/2A