diff --git a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-azure/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/azurebfs/constants/FileSystemConfigurations.java b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-azure/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/azurebfs/constants/FileSystemConfigurations.java
index f58c61e8908..bac2ccaebf0 100644
--- a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-azure/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/azurebfs/constants/FileSystemConfigurations.java
+++ b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-azure/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/azurebfs/constants/FileSystemConfigurations.java
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ public final class FileSystemConfigurations {
 
   public static final String DEFAULT_FS_AZURE_ATOMIC_RENAME_DIRECTORIES = "/hbase";
   public static final boolean DEFAULT_FS_AZURE_ENABLE_CONDITIONAL_CREATE_OVERWRITE = true;
-  public static final boolean DEFAULT_FS_AZURE_ENABLE_MKDIR_OVERWRITE = true;
+  public static final boolean DEFAULT_FS_AZURE_ENABLE_MKDIR_OVERWRITE = false;
   public static final String DEFAULT_FS_AZURE_APPEND_BLOB_DIRECTORIES = "";
   public static final String DEFAULT_FS_AZURE_INFINITE_LEASE_DIRECTORIES = "";
   public static final int DEFAULT_LEASE_THREADS = 0;