[Pvfs2-developers] metadata create paper

[Pete Wyckoff]

This may be relevant.  It's work Ananth did that will show up next
month at the IPDPS conference.

http://www.osc.edu/~pw/papers/devulapalli-create-ipdps07.pdf

We didn't cover all the possibilities, but did quantify the costs of
some create variations in current PVFS.  Pre-creation of datafiles
to eliminate communication with IO servers was important for
scalability.

		-- Pete