diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
index 4cd444086c5..a67f61b06a3 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
@@ -39,6 +39,9 @@ Release 2.0.1-alpha - UNRELEASED
     MAPREDUCE-3493. Add the default mapreduce.shuffle.port property
     to mapred-default.xml (Madhukara Phatak via harsh)
 
+    MAPREDUCE-4307. TeraInputFormat calls FileSystem.getDefaultBlockSize()
+    without a Path - Failure when using ViewFileSystem. (Ahmed Radwan via eli)
+
 Release 2.0.0-alpha - UNRELEASED
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-examples/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/examples/terasort/TeraInputFormat.java b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-examples/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/examples/terasort/TeraInputFormat.java
index 4ef0033012f..f957ad9e4f6 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-examples/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/examples/terasort/TeraInputFormat.java
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-examples/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/examples/terasort/TeraInputFormat.java
@@ -212,7 +212,7 @@ public class TeraInputFormat extends FileInputFormat<Text,Text> {
     }
     FileSystem outFs = partFile.getFileSystem(conf);
     DataOutputStream writer = outFs.create(partFile, true, 64*1024, (short) 10, 
-                                           outFs.getDefaultBlockSize());
+                                           outFs.getDefaultBlockSize(partFile));
     for (int i = 0; i < samples; i++) {
       try {
         samplerReader[i].join();