diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/resources/hdfs-default.xml b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/resources/hdfs-default.xml
index 80c481886d7..78af86b0a3c 100755
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/resources/hdfs-default.xml
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/resources/hdfs-default.xml
@@ -1591,7 +1591,7 @@
   <name>dfs.block.scanner.volume.bytes.per.second</name>
   <value>1048576</value>
   <description>
-        If this is 0, the DataNode's block scanner will be disabled.  If this
+        If this is configured less than or equal to zero, the DataNode's block scanner will be disabled.  If this
         is positive, this is the number of bytes per second that the DataNode's
         block scanner will try to scan from each volume.
   </description>
diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/datanode/TestBlockScanner.java b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/datanode/TestBlockScanner.java
index c74785923a7..2086e15348e 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/datanode/TestBlockScanner.java
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/datanode/TestBlockScanner.java
@@ -282,11 +282,17 @@ public class TestBlockScanner {
   public void testDisableVolumeScanner() throws Exception {
     Configuration conf = new Configuration();
     disableBlockScanner(conf);
-    TestContext ctx = new TestContext(conf, 1);
-    try {
-      Assert.assertFalse(ctx.datanode.getBlockScanner().isEnabled());
-    } finally {
-      ctx.close();
+    try(TestContext ctx = new TestContext(conf, 1)) {
+      assertFalse(ctx.datanode.getBlockScanner().isEnabled());
+    }
+  }
+
+  @Test(timeout=60000)
+  public void testDisableVolumeScanner2() throws Exception {
+    Configuration conf = new Configuration();
+    conf.setLong(DFS_BLOCK_SCANNER_VOLUME_BYTES_PER_SECOND, -1L);
+    try(TestContext ctx = new TestContext(conf, 1)) {
+      assertFalse(ctx.datanode.getBlockScanner().isEnabled());
     }
   }