title: Does POST request to /v1/<account-name> in OpenStack Swift create that account?
body: <p>I'm having trouble interpreting this page:
  <a href="http://docs.openstack.org/api/openstack-object-storage/1.0/content/POST_updateAccountMeta__v1__account__storage_account_services.html" rel="nofollow">http://docs.openstack.org/api/openstack-object-storage/1.0/content/POST_updateAccountMeta__v1__account__storage_account_services.html</a></p>
  
  <p>It says that the POST request to account/ should update that account's metadata. It looks like it means that an account is not created, if there is a POST request to a non-existent account/. Right?</p>
  
  <p>However, observing network traffic in SAIO (swift all in one), I see that the first thing that SAIO functional tests do is issue this request: </p>
  
  <pre><code>POST /v1/6fa5758df0d5463283c1fae5d1b32b27
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  <p>I am pretty sure that this account does not exist. Is Swift looking to create that account with that POST request?</p>