Maximum number of inodes in a directory?

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Published on 2008-09-02T19:29:16Z Indexed on 2010/04/02 12:33 UTC
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Is there a maximum number of inodes in a single directory?

I have a directory of 2 million+ files and can't get an the ls command to work against that directory. So now I'm wondering if I've exceeded a limit on inodes in Linux. Is there a limit before a 2^64 numerical limit?

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