diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/bin/hadoop-daemon.sh b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/bin/hadoop-daemon.sh
index 9d192501ed2..3e5f20ba20c 100755
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/bin/hadoop-daemon.sh
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/bin/hadoop-daemon.sh
@@ -141,7 +141,7 @@ case $startStop in
     echo starting $command, logging to $log
     cd "$HADOOP_PREFIX"
     case $command in
-      namenode|secondarynamenode|datanode|dfs|dfsadmin|fsck|balancer|zkfc)
+      namenode|secondarynamenode|datanode|journalnode|dfs|dfsadmin|fsck|balancer|zkfc)
         if [ -z "$HADOOP_HDFS_HOME" ]; then
           hdfsScript="$HADOOP_PREFIX"/bin/hdfs
         else
diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.HDFS-3077.txt b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.HDFS-3077.txt
index ff7df1ac234..e499b3a6444 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.HDFS-3077.txt
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.HDFS-3077.txt
@@ -30,3 +30,5 @@ HDFS-3800. improvements to QJM fault testing (todd)
 HDFS-3823. QJM: TestQJMWithFaults fails occasionally because of missed setting of HTTP port. (todd and atm)
 
 HDFS-3826. QJM: Some trivial logging / exception text improvements. (todd and atm)
+
+HDFS-3839. QJM: hadoop-daemon.sh should be updated to accept "journalnode" (eli)