diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs-nfs/pom.xml b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs-nfs/pom.xml
index 971a81ae912..f57f29a4c01 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs-nfs/pom.xml
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs-nfs/pom.xml
@@ -193,76 +193,4 @@ http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
     </dependency>
   </dependencies>
 
-  <build>
-    <plugins>
-      <plugin>
-        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
-        <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
-        <configuration>
-          <systemPropertyVariables>
-            <startKdc>${startKdc}</startKdc>
-            <kdc.resource.dir>${kdc.resource.dir}</kdc.resource.dir>
-          </systemPropertyVariables>
-          <properties>
-            <property>
-              <name>listener</name>
-              <value>org.apache.hadoop.test.TimedOutTestsListener</value>
-            </property>
-          </properties>
-        </configuration>
-      </plugin>
-      <plugin>
-        <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
-        <artifactId>build-helper-maven-plugin</artifactId>
-        <executions>
-          <execution>
-            <id>add-jsp-generated-sources-directory</id>
-            <phase>generate-sources</phase>
-            <goals>
-              <goal>add-source</goal>
-            </goals>
-            <configuration>
-              <sources>
-                <source>${project.build.directory}/generated-sources/java</source>
-              </sources>
-            </configuration>
-          </execution>
-        </executions>
-      </plugin>
-      <plugin>
-        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
-        <artifactId>maven-antrun-plugin</artifactId>
-        <configuration>
-          <skipTests>false</skipTests>
-        </configuration>
-        <executions>
-          <execution>
-            <id>create-jsp-generated-sources-directory</id>
-            <phase>initialize</phase>
-            <goals>
-              <goal>run</goal>
-            </goals>
-            <configuration>
-              <target>
-                <mkdir dir="${project.build.directory}/generated-sources/java" />
-              </target>
-            </configuration>
-          </execution>
-          <execution>
-            <phase>pre-site</phase>
-            <goals>
-              <goal>run</goal>
-            </goals>
-            <configuration>
-              <tasks>
-                <copy file="src/main/resources/hdfs-nfs-default.xml" todir="src/site/resources"/>
-                <copy file="src/main/xsl/configuration.xsl" todir="src/site/resources"/>
-              </tasks>
-            </configuration>
-          </execution>
-        </executions>
-      </plugin>
-    </plugins>
-  </build>
-
 </project>
diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
index dd8668d532e..0575690afd3 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
@@ -239,6 +239,8 @@ Trunk (Unreleased)
     HDFS-3934. duplicative dfs_hosts entries handled wrong. (Colin Patrick
     McCabe)
 
+    HDFS-4948. mvn site for hadoop-hdfs-nfs fails. (brandonli)
+
 Release 2.2.0 - UNRELEASED
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES