diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
index 56e2657c4b5..36d7afe9688 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
@@ -403,6 +403,9 @@ Release 2.0.0 - UNRELEASED
     HDFS-3169. TestFsck should test multiple -move operations in a row.
     (Colin Patrick McCabe via eli)
 
+    HDFS-3258. Test for HADOOP-8144 (pseudoSortByDistance in
+    NetworkTopology for first rack local node). (Junping Du via eli)
+
   OPTIMIZATIONS
 
     HDFS-3024. Improve performance of stringification in addStoredBlock (todd)
diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/net/TestNetworkTopology.java b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/net/TestNetworkTopology.java
index 36c38ef4da8..b412fe1ab1c 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/net/TestNetworkTopology.java
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/net/TestNetworkTopology.java
@@ -123,6 +123,17 @@ public class TestNetworkTopology extends TestCase {
     assertTrue(testNodes[0] == dataNodes[1]);
     assertTrue(testNodes[1] == dataNodes[3]);
     assertTrue(testNodes[2] == dataNodes[5]);
+    
+    // array contains local rack node which happens to be in position 0
+    testNodes[0] = dataNodes[1];
+    testNodes[1] = dataNodes[5];
+    testNodes[2] = dataNodes[3];
+    cluster.pseudoSortByDistance(dataNodes[0], testNodes );
+    // peudoSortByDistance does not take the "data center" layer into consideration 
+    // and it doesn't sort by getDistance, so 1, 5, 3 is also valid here
+    assertTrue(testNodes[0] == dataNodes[1]);
+    assertTrue(testNodes[1] == dataNodes[5]);
+    assertTrue(testNodes[2] == dataNodes[3]);
   }
   
   public void testRemove() throws Exception {