// blindly, meaning that if the path already exists, then
        // that's ok -- so a more correct name for this method would
        // be ensureCoordinate(), but that might confuse developers.
<<<<<<< HEAD
        String root = ZkCoordinatePath.getCoordinateRoot(coordinate);
=======
        String root = ZkCoordinatePath.getRoot(coordinate);
        if (Util.exist(zk, root)) {
            throw new CloudnameException.CoordinateExist();
        }
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        try {
            Util.mkdir(zk, root, Ids.OPEN_ACL_UNSAFE);
        } catch (KeeperException e) {

        // blindly, meaning that if the path already exists, then
        // that's ok -- so a more correct name for this method would
        // be ensureCoordinate(), but that might confuse developers.
        String root = ZkCoordinatePath.getCoordinateRoot(coordinate);

        if (Util.exist(zk, root)) {
            throw new CloudnameException.CoordinateExist();
        }

        try {
            Util.mkdir(zk, root, Ids.OPEN_ACL_UNSAFE);
        } catch (KeeperException e) {