diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
index db0526ce709..dfe29e61b4d 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
@@ -80,6 +80,8 @@ Release 2.5.0 - UNRELEASED
     HADOOP-10691. Improve the readability of 'hadoop fs -help'.
     (Lei Xu via wang)
 
+    HADOOP-10688. Expose thread-level FileSystem StatisticsData (Sandy Ryza)
+
   OPTIMIZATIONS
 
   BUG FIXES 
diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/FileSystem.java b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/FileSystem.java
index 93a9ac23c97..25cb147fc67 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/FileSystem.java
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/FileSystem.java
@@ -2805,7 +2805,7 @@ public abstract class FileSystem extends Configured implements Closeable {
      * be perceived as atomic with respect to other threads, which is all we
      * need.
      */
-    private static class StatisticsData {
+    public static class StatisticsData {
       volatile long bytesRead;
       volatile long bytesWritten;
       volatile int readOps;
@@ -2850,6 +2850,26 @@ public abstract class FileSystem extends Configured implements Closeable {
             + readOps + " read ops, " + largeReadOps + " large read ops, "
             + writeOps + " write ops";
       }
+      
+      public long getBytesRead() {
+        return bytesRead;
+      }
+      
+      public long getBytesWritten() {
+        return bytesWritten;
+      }
+      
+      public int getReadOps() {
+        return readOps;
+      }
+      
+      public int getLargeReadOps() {
+        return largeReadOps;
+      }
+      
+      public int getWriteOps() {
+        return writeOps;
+      }
     }
 
     private interface StatisticsAggregator<T> {
@@ -2908,7 +2928,7 @@ public abstract class FileSystem extends Configured implements Closeable {
     /**
      * Get or create the thread-local data associated with the current thread.
      */
-    private StatisticsData getThreadData() {
+    public StatisticsData getThreadStatistics() {
       StatisticsData data = threadData.get();
       if (data == null) {
         data = new StatisticsData(
@@ -2929,7 +2949,7 @@ public abstract class FileSystem extends Configured implements Closeable {
      * @param newBytes the additional bytes read
      */
     public void incrementBytesRead(long newBytes) {
-      getThreadData().bytesRead += newBytes;
+      getThreadStatistics().bytesRead += newBytes;
     }
     
     /**
@@ -2937,7 +2957,7 @@ public abstract class FileSystem extends Configured implements Closeable {
      * @param newBytes the additional bytes written
      */
     public void incrementBytesWritten(long newBytes) {
-      getThreadData().bytesWritten += newBytes;
+      getThreadStatistics().bytesWritten += newBytes;
     }
     
     /**
@@ -2945,7 +2965,7 @@ public abstract class FileSystem extends Configured implements Closeable {
      * @param count number of read operations
      */
     public void incrementReadOps(int count) {
-      getThreadData().readOps += count;
+      getThreadStatistics().readOps += count;
     }
 
     /**
@@ -2953,7 +2973,7 @@ public abstract class FileSystem extends Configured implements Closeable {
      * @param count number of large read operations
      */
     public void incrementLargeReadOps(int count) {
-      getThreadData().largeReadOps += count;
+      getThreadStatistics().largeReadOps += count;
     }
 
     /**
@@ -2961,7 +2981,7 @@ public abstract class FileSystem extends Configured implements Closeable {
      * @param count number of write operations
      */
     public void incrementWriteOps(int count) {
-      getThreadData().writeOps += count;
+      getThreadStatistics().writeOps += count;
     }
 
     /**