diff --git a/hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/HRegionFileSystem.java b/hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/HRegionFileSystem.java
index 6128c0a09c3..fa3fc5a7a36 100644
--- a/hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/HRegionFileSystem.java
+++ b/hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/HRegionFileSystem.java
@@ -838,7 +838,7 @@ public class HRegionFileSystem {
       throw new IOException("The specified region do not exists on disk: " + regionDir);
     }
 
-    if (readOnly) {
+    if (!readOnly) {
       // Cleanup temporary directories
       regionFs.cleanupTempDir();
       regionFs.cleanupSplitsDir();