From a4997c67a08d393cdddc6dc38e03b660997fa0a7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Artem Bilan <abilan@vmware.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2022 11:33:39 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Remove extra root creation in ZKMetadataStore

---
 .../zookeeper/metadata/ZookeeperMetadataStore.java            | 4 ----
 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/spring-integration-zookeeper/src/main/java/org/springframework/integration/zookeeper/metadata/ZookeeperMetadataStore.java b/spring-integration-zookeeper/src/main/java/org/springframework/integration/zookeeper/metadata/ZookeeperMetadataStore.java
index 03efcb260b..c7cca9da84 100644
--- a/spring-integration-zookeeper/src/main/java/org/springframework/integration/zookeeper/metadata/ZookeeperMetadataStore.java
+++ b/spring-integration-zookeeper/src/main/java/org/springframework/integration/zookeeper/metadata/ZookeeperMetadataStore.java
@@ -263,10 +263,6 @@ public class ZookeeperMetadataStore implements ListenableMetadataStore, SmartLif
 	public synchronized void start() {
 		if (!this.running) {
 			try {
-				this.client.checkExists()
-						.creatingParentContainersIfNeeded()
-						.forPath(this.root);
-
 				this.client.createContainers(this.root);
 				this.cache = CuratorCache.builder(this.client, this.root).build();
 				this.cache.listenable().addListener(new MetadataStoreCacheListener());