public boolean isMetaZNodePath(String path) {
    int prefixLen = baseZNode.length() + 1;
    return path.length() > prefixLen && isMetaZNodePrefix(path.substring(prefixLen));
  }
Returns True is the fully qualified path is for meta location
hbase-client/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/zookeeper/ZNodePaths.java