HDFS-4679. Namenode operation checks should be done in a consistent manner. Contributed by Suresh Srinivas.

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Merge remote branch 'origin/trunk' into trunk-gd
Merge remote branch 'origin/trunk-gd' into fb-YAHOO-260-trunk-gd