diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
index f4526ff6d18..580629bcefd 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
@@ -1053,6 +1053,9 @@ Release 2.8.0 - UNRELEASED
     TestSWebHdfsFileContextMainOperations fail due to invalid HDFS path on
     Windows. (Chris Nauroth via wheat9)
 
+    HDFS-9076. Log full path instead of inodeId in DFSClient
+    #closeAllFilesBeingWritten() (Surendra Singh Lilhore via vinayakumarb)
+
 Release 2.7.2 - UNRELEASED
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/DFSClient.java b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/DFSClient.java
index f1e8905555b..496b0794f93 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/DFSClient.java
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/DFSClient.java
@@ -589,8 +589,8 @@ public class DFSClient implements java.io.Closeable, RemotePeerFactory,
             out.close();
           }
         } catch(IOException ie) {
-          LOG.error("Failed to " + (abort? "abort": "close") +
-                  " inode " + inodeId, ie);
+          LOG.error("Failed to " + (abort ? "abort" : "close") + " file: "
+              + out.getSrc() + " with inode: " + inodeId, ie);
         }
       }
     }
diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/DFSOutputStream.java b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/DFSOutputStream.java
index 5cd40a53d43..546693650b3 100755
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/DFSOutputStream.java
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/DFSOutputStream.java
@@ -907,6 +907,13 @@ public class DFSOutputStream extends FSOutputSummer
     return fileId;
   }
 
+  /**
+   * Return the source of stream.
+   */
+  String getSrc() {
+    return src;
+  }
+
   /**
    * Returns the data streamer object.
    */