diff --git a/server/src/main/java/com/metamx/druid/loading/HdfsDataSegmentPusher.java b/server/src/main/java/com/metamx/druid/loading/HdfsDataSegmentPusher.java
index 52ac15129d4..09fdf72f863 100644
--- a/server/src/main/java/com/metamx/druid/loading/HdfsDataSegmentPusher.java
+++ b/server/src/main/java/com/metamx/druid/loading/HdfsDataSegmentPusher.java
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ public class HdfsDataSegmentPusher implements DataSegmentPusher
   public DataSegment push(File inDir, DataSegment segment) throws IOException
   {
     final String storageDir = DataSegmentPusherUtil.getStorageDir(segment);
-    Path outFile = new Path(String.format("%s/%s/index.zip", config.getStorageDirectory(), storageDir));
+    Path outFile = config.getStorageDirectory().suffix(String.format("/%s/index.zip", storageDir));
     FileSystem fs = outFile.getFileSystem(hadoopConfig);
 
     fs.mkdirs(outFile.getParent());
diff --git a/server/src/main/java/com/metamx/druid/loading/HdfsDataSegmentPusherConfig.java b/server/src/main/java/com/metamx/druid/loading/HdfsDataSegmentPusherConfig.java
index c3f6d603ccb..70f3c979388 100644
--- a/server/src/main/java/com/metamx/druid/loading/HdfsDataSegmentPusherConfig.java
+++ b/server/src/main/java/com/metamx/druid/loading/HdfsDataSegmentPusherConfig.java
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
 
 package com.metamx.druid.loading;
 
+import org.apache.hadoop.fs.Path;
 import org.skife.config.Config;
 
 import java.io.File;
@@ -28,5 +29,5 @@ import java.io.File;
 public abstract class HdfsDataSegmentPusherConfig
 {
   @Config("druid.pusher.hdfs.storageDirectory")
-  public abstract File getStorageDirectory();
+  public abstract Path getStorageDirectory();
 }