diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
index 86dd218affb..963504ff2e4 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
@@ -446,6 +446,9 @@ Release 2.2.1 - UNRELEASED
     HDFS-5171. NFS should create input stream for a file and try to share it
     with multiple read requests. (Haohui Mai via brandonli)
 
+    HDFS-5413. hdfs.cmd does not support passthrough to any arbitrary class.
+    (cnauroth)
+
 Release 2.2.0 - 2013-10-13
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/bin/hdfs.cmd b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/bin/hdfs.cmd
index 503c2680ead..e773fd3d2c4 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/bin/hdfs.cmd
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/bin/hdfs.cmd
@@ -47,7 +47,17 @@ if "%1" == "--config" (
       goto print_usage
   )
 
-  call :%hdfs-command% %hdfs-command-arguments%
+  set hdfscommands=dfs namenode secondarynamenode journalnode zkfc datanode dfsadmin haadmin fsck balancer jmxget oiv oev fetchdt getconf groups snapshotDiff lsSnapshottableDir
+  for %%i in ( %hdfscommands% ) do (
+    if %hdfs-command% == %%i set hdfscommand=true
+  )
+  if defined hdfscommand (
+    call :%hdfs-command%
+  ) else (
+    set CLASSPATH=%CLASSPATH%;%CD%
+    set CLASS=%hdfs-command%
+  )
+
   set java_arguments=%JAVA_HEAP_MAX% %HADOOP_OPTS% -classpath %CLASSPATH% %CLASS% %hdfs-command-arguments%
   call %JAVA% %java_arguments%
 
@@ -58,6 +68,11 @@ goto :eof
   set HADOOP_OPTS=%HADOOP_OPTS% %HADOOP_NAMENODE_OPTS%
   goto :eof
 
+:journalnode
+  set CLASS=org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.qjournal.server.JournalNode
+  set HADOOP_OPTS=%HADOOP_OPTS% %HADOOP_JOURNALNODE_OPTS%
+  goto :eof
+
 :zkfc
   set CLASS=org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.tools.DFSZKFailoverController
   set HADOOP_OPTS=%HADOOP_OPTS% %HADOOP_ZKFC_OPTS%
@@ -161,9 +176,11 @@ goto :eof
   @echo   namenode -format     format the DFS filesystem
   @echo   secondarynamenode    run the DFS secondary namenode
   @echo   namenode             run the DFS namenode
+  @echo   journalnode          run the DFS journalnode
   @echo   zkfc                 run the ZK Failover Controller daemon
   @echo   datanode             run a DFS datanode
   @echo   dfsadmin             run a DFS admin client
+  @echo   haadmin              run a DFS HA admin client
   @echo   fsck                 run a DFS filesystem checking utility
   @echo   balancer             run a cluster balancing utility
   @echo   jmxget               get JMX exported values from NameNode or DataNode.