diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
index 6cf550d74e3..7d67ab9a263 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
@@ -566,6 +566,8 @@ Branch-2 ( Unreleased changes )
 
     HDFS-3754. BlockSender doesn't shutdown ReadaheadPool threads. (eli)
 
+    HDFS-3760. primitiveCreate is a write, not a read. (Andy Isaacson via atm)
+
   BREAKDOWN OF HDFS-3042 SUBTASKS
 
     HDFS-2185. HDFS portion of ZK-based FailoverController (todd)
diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/DistributedFileSystem.java b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/DistributedFileSystem.java
index 8c0ed10d2bd..b554938530e 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/DistributedFileSystem.java
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/DistributedFileSystem.java
@@ -247,7 +247,7 @@ public class DistributedFileSystem extends FileSystem {
     FsPermission absolutePermission, EnumSet<CreateFlag> flag, int bufferSize,
     short replication, long blockSize, Progressable progress,
     int bytesPerChecksum) throws IOException {
-    statistics.incrementReadOps(1);
+    statistics.incrementWriteOps(1);
     return new HdfsDataOutputStream(dfs.primitiveCreate(getPathName(f),
         absolutePermission, flag, true, replication, blockSize,
         progress, bufferSize, bytesPerChecksum),statistics);