diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
index 13c4094a1e4..2def9955647 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
@@ -2228,6 +2228,9 @@ Release 2.8.0 - UNRELEASED
     HDFS-9289. Make DataStreamer#block thread safe and verify genStamp in
     commitBlock. (Chang Li via zhz)
 
+    HDFS-9351. checkNNStartup() need to be called when fsck calls
+    FSNamesystem.getSnapshottableDirs(). (Xiao Chen via Yongjun Zhang)
+
 Release 2.7.2 - UNRELEASED
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/namenode/FSNamesystem.java b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/namenode/FSNamesystem.java
index 65b40c87ff9..734e3ba2fe9 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/namenode/FSNamesystem.java
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/namenode/FSNamesystem.java
@@ -6364,26 +6364,6 @@ public class FSNamesystem implements Namesystem, FSNamesystemMBean,
     return list;
   }
 
-  /**
-   * Get the list of snapshottable directories.
-   * @return The list of all the current snapshottable directories
-   * @see #getSnapshottableDirListing()
-   * @throws IOException
-   */
-  List<String> getSnapshottableDirs() throws IOException {
-    List<String> snapshottableDirs = new ArrayList<String>();
-    final FSPermissionChecker pc = getFSDirectory().getPermissionChecker();
-    final String user = pc.isSuperUser() ? null : pc.getUser();
-    final SnapshottableDirectoryStatus[] snapDirs =
-        snapshotManager.getSnapshottableDirListing(user);
-    if (snapDirs != null) {
-      for (SnapshottableDirectoryStatus sds : snapDirs) {
-        snapshottableDirs.add(sds.getFullPath().toString());
-      }
-    }
-    return snapshottableDirs;
-  }
-
   @Override  //NameNodeMXBean
   public int getDistinctVersionCount() {
     return blockManager.getDatanodeManager().getDatanodesSoftwareVersions()
diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/namenode/NamenodeFsck.java b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/namenode/NamenodeFsck.java
index 0b2a53b3a07..9d4edb5420c 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/namenode/NamenodeFsck.java
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/namenode/NamenodeFsck.java
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ import org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.protocol.HdfsConstants;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.protocol.HdfsFileStatus;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.protocol.LocatedBlock;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.protocol.LocatedBlocks;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.protocol.SnapshottableDirectoryStatus;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.protocol.datatransfer.sasl.DataEncryptionKeyFactory;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.security.token.block.BlockTokenIdentifier;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.security.token.block.DataEncryptionKey;
@@ -345,7 +346,13 @@ public class NamenodeFsck implements DataEncryptionKeyFactory {
       namenode.getNamesystem().logFsckEvent(path, remoteAddress);
 
       if (snapshottableDirs != null) {
-        snapshottableDirs = namenode.getNamesystem().getSnapshottableDirs();
+        SnapshottableDirectoryStatus[] snapshotDirs =
+            namenode.getRpcServer().getSnapshottableDirListing();
+        if (snapshotDirs != null) {
+          for (SnapshottableDirectoryStatus dir : snapshotDirs) {
+            snapshottableDirs.add(dir.getFullPath().toString());
+          }
+        }
       }
 
       final HdfsFileStatus file = namenode.getRpcServer().getFileInfo(path);