diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
index f00beac4c2f..ce02eef5b2d 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
@@ -397,6 +397,9 @@ Release 2.0.4-beta - UNRELEASED
 
     HADOOP-9342. Remove jline from distribution. (thw via tucu)
 
+    HADOOP-9230. TestUniformSizeInputFormat fails intermittently. 
+    (kkambatl via tucu)
+
 Release 2.0.3-alpha - 2013-02-06 
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-distcp/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/tools/mapred/TestUniformSizeInputFormat.java b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-distcp/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/tools/mapred/TestUniformSizeInputFormat.java
index b9d421a1bac..da0cfdf403e 100644
--- a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-distcp/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/tools/mapred/TestUniformSizeInputFormat.java
+++ b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-distcp/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/tools/mapred/TestUniformSizeInputFormat.java
@@ -33,8 +33,6 @@ import org.apache.hadoop.tools.CopyListing;
 import org.apache.hadoop.tools.DistCpOptions;
 import org.apache.hadoop.tools.StubContext;
 import org.apache.hadoop.security.Credentials;
-import org.apache.commons.logging.Log;
-import org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory;
 import org.junit.AfterClass;
 import org.junit.Assert;
 import org.junit.BeforeClass;
@@ -48,9 +46,6 @@ import java.util.Random;
 
 
 public class TestUniformSizeInputFormat {
-  private static final Log LOG
-                = LogFactory.getLog(TestUniformSizeInputFormat.class);
-
   private static MiniDFSCluster cluster;
   private static final int N_FILES = 20;
   private static final int SIZEOF_EACH_FILE=1024;
@@ -118,12 +113,9 @@ public class TestUniformSizeInputFormat {
     List<InputSplit> splits
             = uniformSizeInputFormat.getSplits(jobContext);
 
-    List<InputSplit> legacySplits = legacyGetSplits(listFile, nMaps);
-
     int sizePerMap = totalFileSize/nMaps;
 
     checkSplits(listFile, splits);
-    checkAgainstLegacy(splits, legacySplits);
 
     int doubleCheckedTotalSize = 0;
     int previousSplitSize = -1;
@@ -155,57 +147,6 @@ public class TestUniformSizeInputFormat {
     Assert.assertEquals(totalFileSize, doubleCheckedTotalSize);
   }
 
-  // From
-  // http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/hadoop/mapreduce/trunk/src/tools/org/apache/hadoop/tools/DistCp.java
-  private List<InputSplit> legacyGetSplits(Path listFile, int numSplits)
-      throws IOException {
-
-    FileSystem fs = cluster.getFileSystem();
-    FileStatus srcst = fs.getFileStatus(listFile);
-    Configuration conf = fs.getConf();
-
-    ArrayList<InputSplit> splits = new ArrayList<InputSplit>(numSplits);
-    FileStatus value = new FileStatus();
-    Text key = new Text();
-    final long targetsize = totalFileSize / numSplits;
-    long pos = 0L;
-    long last = 0L;
-    long acc = 0L;
-    long cbrem = srcst.getLen();
-    SequenceFile.Reader sl = null;
-
-    LOG.info("Average bytes per map: " + targetsize +
-        ", Number of maps: " + numSplits + ", total size: " + totalFileSize);
-
-    try {
-      sl = new SequenceFile.Reader(conf, SequenceFile.Reader.file(listFile));
-      for (; sl.next(key, value); last = sl.getPosition()) {
-        // if adding this split would put this split past the target size,
-        // cut the last split and put this next file in the next split.
-        if (acc + value.getLen() > targetsize && acc != 0) {
-          long splitsize = last - pos;
-          FileSplit fileSplit = new FileSplit(listFile, pos, splitsize, null);
-          LOG.info ("Creating split : " + fileSplit + ", bytes in split: " + splitsize);
-          splits.add(fileSplit);
-          cbrem -= splitsize;
-          pos = last;
-          acc = 0L;
-        }
-        acc += value.getLen();
-      }
-    }
-    finally {
-      IOUtils.closeStream(sl);
-    }
-    if (cbrem != 0) {
-      FileSplit fileSplit = new FileSplit(listFile, pos, cbrem, null);
-      LOG.info ("Creating split : " + fileSplit + ", bytes in split: " + cbrem);
-      splits.add(fileSplit);
-    }
-
-    return splits;
-  }
-
   private void checkSplits(Path listFile, List<InputSplit> splits) throws IOException {
     long lastEnd = 0;
 
@@ -233,18 +174,6 @@ public class TestUniformSizeInputFormat {
     }
   }
 
-  private void checkAgainstLegacy(List<InputSplit> splits,
-                                  List<InputSplit> legacySplits)
-      throws IOException, InterruptedException {
-
-    Assert.assertEquals(legacySplits.size(), splits.size());
-    for (int index = 0; index < splits.size(); index++) {
-      FileSplit fileSplit = (FileSplit) splits.get(index);
-      FileSplit legacyFileSplit = (FileSplit) legacySplits.get(index);
-      Assert.assertEquals(fileSplit.getStart(), legacyFileSplit.getStart());
-    }
-  }
-
   @Test
   public void testGetSplits() throws Exception {
     testGetSplits(9);