diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
index 8cfe089d008..55324ad8812 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
@@ -577,6 +577,9 @@ Release 2.0.3-alpha - Unreleased
     HDFS-4162. Some malformed and unquoted HTML strings are returned from 
     datanode web ui. (Darek Dagit via suresh)
 
+    HDFS-4164. fuse_dfs: add -lrt to the compiler command line on Linux.
+    (Colin Patrick McCabe via eli)
+
 Release 2.0.2-alpha - 2012-09-07 
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/native/fuse-dfs/CMakeLists.txt b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/native/fuse-dfs/CMakeLists.txt
index f3a398667b5..39828dcd66c 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/native/fuse-dfs/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/native/fuse-dfs/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -70,6 +70,7 @@ IF(FUSE_FOUND)
         hdfs
         m
         pthread
+        rt
     )
     add_executable(test_fuse_dfs
         test/test_fuse_dfs.c