diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
index 6145c5dac39..cab4a426cc5 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
@@ -297,6 +297,8 @@ Trunk (Unreleased)
     HDFS-4261. Fix bugs in Balaner causing infinite loop and
     TestBalancerWithNodeGroup timeing out.  (Junping Du via szetszwo)
 
+    HDFS-4382. Fix typo MAX_NOT_CHANGED_INTERATIONS. (Ted Yu via suresh)
+
 Release 2.0.3-alpha - Unreleased 
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/balancer/Balancer.java b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/balancer/Balancer.java
index 049e6691913..b64844ba523 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/balancer/Balancer.java
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/balancer/Balancer.java
@@ -190,7 +190,7 @@ public class Balancer {
    * balancing purpose at a datanode
    */
   public static final int MAX_NUM_CONCURRENT_MOVES = 5;
-  public static final int MAX_NO_PENDING_BLOCK_INTERATIONS = 5;
+  private static final int MAX_NO_PENDING_BLOCK_ITERATIONS = 5;
   
   private static final String USAGE = "Usage: java "
       + Balancer.class.getSimpleName()
@@ -782,7 +782,7 @@ public class Balancer {
           noPendingBlockIteration++;
           // in case no blocks can be moved for source node's task,
           // jump out of while-loop after 5 iterations.
-          if (noPendingBlockIteration >= MAX_NO_PENDING_BLOCK_INTERATIONS) {
+          if (noPendingBlockIteration >= MAX_NO_PENDING_BLOCK_ITERATIONS) {
             scheduledSize = 0;
           }
         }
diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/balancer/NameNodeConnector.java b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/balancer/NameNodeConnector.java
index 530a3b7e781..afec92be611 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/balancer/NameNodeConnector.java
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/balancer/NameNodeConnector.java
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ import org.apache.hadoop.util.Daemon;
 class NameNodeConnector {
   private static final Log LOG = Balancer.LOG;
   private static final Path BALANCER_ID_PATH = new Path("/system/balancer.id");
-  private static final int MAX_NOT_CHANGED_INTERATIONS = 5;
+  private static final int MAX_NOT_CHANGED_ITERATIONS = 5;
 
   final URI nameNodeUri;
   final String blockpoolID;
@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ class NameNodeConnector {
       notChangedIterations = 0;
     } else {
       notChangedIterations++;
-      if (notChangedIterations >= MAX_NOT_CHANGED_INTERATIONS) {
+      if (notChangedIterations >= MAX_NOT_CHANGED_ITERATIONS) {
         System.out.println("No block has been moved for "
             + notChangedIterations + " iterations. Exiting...");
         return false;