diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
index 40d727c06ff..bd7c5851469 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
@@ -29,6 +29,9 @@ Release 0.23.2 - UNRELEASED
     HDFS-776.  Fix exception handling in Balancer.  (Uma Maheswara Rao G
     via szetszwo)
 
+    HDFS-2815. Namenode sometimes oes not come out of safemode during 
+    NN crash + restart. (Uma Maheswara Rao via suresh)
+
 Release 0.23.1 - 2012-02-08 
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/namenode/FSNamesystem.java b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/namenode/FSNamesystem.java
index cf71d59985e..8b15aca7e8f 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/namenode/FSNamesystem.java
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/namenode/FSNamesystem.java
@@ -1908,7 +1908,6 @@ public class FSNamesystem implements Namesystem, FSClusterStats,
       boolean enforcePermission)
       throws AccessControlException, SafeModeException, UnresolvedLinkException,
              IOException {
-    boolean deleteNow = false;
     ArrayList<Block> collectedBlocks = new ArrayList<Block>();
 
     writeLock();
@@ -1926,10 +1925,6 @@ public class FSNamesystem implements Namesystem, FSClusterStats,
       if (!dir.delete(src, collectedBlocks)) {
         return false;
       }
-      deleteNow = collectedBlocks.size() <= BLOCK_DELETION_INCREMENT;
-      if (deleteNow) { // Perform small deletes right away
-        removeBlocks(collectedBlocks);
-      }
     } finally {
       writeUnlock();
     }
@@ -1938,9 +1933,7 @@ public class FSNamesystem implements Namesystem, FSClusterStats,
 
     writeLock();
     try {
-      if (!deleteNow) {
-        removeBlocks(collectedBlocks); // Incremental deletion of blocks
-      }
+      removeBlocks(collectedBlocks); // Incremental deletion of blocks
     } finally {
       writeUnlock();
     }