private static void writeHTD(final FileSystem fs, final Path p, final HTableDescriptor htd)
     throws IOException {
   FSDataOutputStream out = fs.create(p, false);
   try {
     htd.write(out);
     out.write('\n');
     out.write('\n');
     out.write(Bytes.toBytes(htd.toString()));
   } finally {
     out.close();
   }
 }