diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
index 8cf753a7940..7fab7565313 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
@@ -349,6 +349,9 @@ Release 2.4.1 - UNRELEASED
 
   IMPROVEMENTS
 
+    HADOOP-10454. Provide FileContext version of har file system. (Kihwal Lee
+    via jeagles)
+
   OPTIMIZATIONS
 
   BUG FIXES 
diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/HarFs.java b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/HarFs.java
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..a2369e32802
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/HarFs.java
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+/**
+* Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+* or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file
+* distributed with this work for additional information
+* regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file
+* to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+* "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+* with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
+*
+* http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+*
+* Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+* distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+* WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+* See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+* limitations under the License.
+*/
+
+package org.apache.hadoop.fs;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.net.URI;
+import java.net.URISyntaxException;
+
+import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration;
+
+public class HarFs extends DelegateToFileSystem {
+  HarFs(final URI theUri, final Configuration conf)
+      throws IOException, URISyntaxException {
+    super(theUri, new HarFileSystem(), conf, "har", true);
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public int getUriDefaultPort() {
+    return -1;
+  }
+}
+
diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/resources/core-default.xml b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/resources/core-default.xml
index 1252fd2e9d0..475dc4d4502 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/resources/core-default.xml
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/resources/core-default.xml
@@ -452,6 +452,11 @@
   <description>The AbstractFileSystem for file: uris.</description>
 </property>
 
+<property>
+  <name>fs.AbstractFileSystem.har.impl</name>
+  <value>org.apache.hadoop.fs.HarFs</value>
+  <description>The AbstractFileSystem for har: uris.</description>
+</property> 
 
 <property>
   <name>fs.AbstractFileSystem.hdfs.impl</name>