diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/datanode/DataStorage.java b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/datanode/DataStorage.java
index 57ef1bcec99..835643bd9e7 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/datanode/DataStorage.java
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/datanode/DataStorage.java
@@ -543,7 +543,7 @@ public class DataStorage extends Storage {
   void recoverTransitionRead(DataNode datanode, NamespaceInfo nsInfo,
       Collection<StorageLocation> dataDirs, StartupOption startOpt) throws IOException {
     if (addStorageLocations(datanode, nsInfo, dataDirs, startOpt).isEmpty()) {
-      throw new IOException("All specified directories are failed to load.");
+      throw new IOException("All specified directories have failed to load.");
     }
   }
 
diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/datanode/TestDataStorage.java b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/datanode/TestDataStorage.java
index c56a01ca58e..6c494519672 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/datanode/TestDataStorage.java
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/datanode/TestDataStorage.java
@@ -200,7 +200,7 @@ public class TestDataStorage {
       fail("An IOException should throw: all StorageLocations are NON_EXISTENT");
     } catch (IOException e) {
       GenericTestUtils.assertExceptionContains(
-          "All specified directories are failed to load.", e);
+          "All specified directories have failed to load.", e);
     }
     assertEquals(0, storage.getNumStorageDirs());
   }