HBASE-11387 metrics: wrong totalRequestCount
HBASE-11403 Fix race conditions around Object#notify
HBASE-11396 Invalid meta entries can lead to unstartable master (Craig Condit)
HBASE-11363 Access checks in preCompact and preCompactSelection are out of sync
HBASE-11391 Thrift table creation will fail with default TTL with sanity checks
HBASE-11397 When merging expired stripes, we need to create an empty file to preserve metadata (Victor Xu)
Merge remote-tracking branch 'remotes/origin/0.98' into 0.98