diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
index bb9470265f7..1c94ad892eb 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
@@ -696,6 +696,9 @@ Release 2.3.0 - UNRELEASED
     HADOOP-10086. User document for authentication in secure cluster.
     (Masatake Iwasaki via Arpit Agarwal)
 
+    HDFS-5825. Use FileUtils.copyFile() to implement DFSTestUtils.copyFile().
+    (Haohui Mai via Arpit Agarwal)
+
   OPTIMIZATIONS
 
   BUG FIXES
diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/DFSTestUtil.java b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/DFSTestUtil.java
index dbd5771d633..1b31cccd62c 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/DFSTestUtil.java
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/DFSTestUtil.java
@@ -20,6 +20,8 @@ package org.apache.hadoop.hdfs;
 
 import com.google.common.base.Charsets;
 import com.google.common.base.Joiner;
+
+import org.apache.commons.io.FileUtils;
 import org.apache.commons.logging.Log;
 import org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory;
 import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration;
@@ -27,7 +29,6 @@ import org.apache.hadoop.fs.*;
 import org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystem;
 import org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystem.Statistics;
 import org.apache.hadoop.fs.Options.Rename;
-import org.apache.hadoop.fs.Path;
 import org.apache.hadoop.fs.permission.FsPermission;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.MiniDFSCluster.NameNodeInfo;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.client.HdfsDataInputStream;
@@ -909,21 +910,7 @@ public class DFSTestUtil {
   
   /** Copy one file's contents into the other **/
   public static void copyFile(File src, File dest) throws IOException {
-    InputStream in = null;
-    OutputStream out = null;
-    
-    try {
-      in = new FileInputStream(src);
-      out = new FileOutputStream(dest);
-
-      byte [] b = new byte[1024];
-      while( in.read(b)  > 0 ) {
-        out.write(b);
-      }
-    } finally {
-      if(in != null) in.close();
-      if(out != null) out.close();
-    }
+    FileUtils.copyFile(src, dest);
   }
 
   public static class Builder {