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 _______________________________________________ Pvfs2-developers mailing list [email protected] http://www.beowulf-underground.org/mailman/listinfo/pvfs2-developers
