diff --git a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-azure/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/azurebfs/ITestAbfsClient.java b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-azure/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/azurebfs/ITestAbfsClient.java
index bc05e7d64d..3d6869d948 100644
--- a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-azure/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/azurebfs/ITestAbfsClient.java
+++ b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-azure/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/azurebfs/ITestAbfsClient.java
@@ -43,6 +43,8 @@ public ITestAbfsClient() throws Exception {
     super();
   }
 
+  @Ignore("HADOOP-16845: Invalid continuation tokens are ignored by the ADLS "
+      + "Gen2 service, so we are disabling this test until the service is fixed.")
   @Test
   public void testContinuationTokenHavingEqualSign() throws Exception {
     final AzureBlobFileSystem fs = this.getFileSystem();