diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
index 00028bb91f5..5685f1fcae0 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
@@ -650,6 +650,9 @@ Release 2.7.1 - UNRELEASED
     HDFS-8566. HDFS documentation about debug commands wrongly identifies them
     as "hdfs dfs" commands (Surendra Singh Lilhore via Colin P. McCabe)
 
+    HDFS-8583. Document that NFS gateway does not work with rpcbind
+    on SLES 11. (Arpit Agarwal)
+
 Release 2.7.0 - 2015-04-20
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/site/markdown/HdfsNfsGateway.md b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/site/markdown/HdfsNfsGateway.md
index 2184d7c12df..540472e60fe 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/site/markdown/HdfsNfsGateway.md
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/site/markdown/HdfsNfsGateway.md
@@ -198,7 +198,7 @@ It's strongly recommended for the users to update a few configuration properties
 Start and stop NFS gateway service
 ----------------------------------
 
-Three daemons are required to provide NFS service: rpcbind (or portmap), mountd and nfsd. The NFS gateway process has both nfsd and mountd. It shares the HDFS root "/" as the only export. It is recommended to use the portmap included in NFS gateway package. Even though NFS gateway works with portmap/rpcbind provide by most Linux distributions, the package included portmap is needed on some Linux systems such as REHL6.2 due to an [rpcbind bug](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=731542). More detailed discussions can be found in [HDFS-4763](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-4763).
+Three daemons are required to provide NFS service: rpcbind (or portmap), mountd and nfsd. The NFS gateway process has both nfsd and mountd. It shares the HDFS root "/" as the only export. It is recommended to use the portmap included in NFS gateway package. Even though NFS gateway works with portmap/rpcbind provide by most Linux distributions, the package included portmap is needed on some Linux systems such as RHEL 6.2 and SLES 11, the former due to an [rpcbind bug](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=731542). More detailed discussions can be found in [HDFS-4763](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-4763).
 
 1.  Stop nfsv3 and rpcbind/portmap services provided by the platform (commands can be different on various Unix platforms):