Running CompressionTest yields unrelated schema metrics configuration errors.

In a vanilla configuration, running CompressionTest yields the following error:

sudo -u hdfs hbase org.apache.hadoop.hbase.util.CompressionTest /path/to/hfile gz

Output:
13/03/07 14:49:40 ERROR metrics.SchemaMetrics: Inconsistent configuration. Previous configuration for using table name in metrics: true, new configuration: false