diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
index 5e4d0966865..1098cbb94a4 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
@@ -431,6 +431,9 @@ Release 2.0.3-alpha - Unreleased
     HDFS-4359. Slow RPC responses from NN can prevent metrics collection on
     DNs. (liang xie via atm)
 
+    HDFS-4444. Add space between total transaction time and number of
+    transactions in FSEditLog#printStatistics. (Stephen Chu via suresh)
+
   BREAKDOWN OF HDFS-3077 SUBTASKS
 
     HDFS-3077. Quorum-based protocol for reading and writing edit logs.
diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/namenode/FSEditLog.java b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/namenode/FSEditLog.java
index 7b710b3a598..e4f26598333 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/namenode/FSEditLog.java
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/namenode/FSEditLog.java
@@ -621,7 +621,7 @@ private void printStatistics(boolean force) {
     buf.append(numTransactions);
     buf.append(" Total time for transactions(ms): ");
     buf.append(totalTimeTransactions);
-    buf.append("Number of transactions batched in Syncs: ");
+    buf.append(" Number of transactions batched in Syncs: ");
     buf.append(numTransactionsBatchedInSync);
     buf.append(" Number of syncs: ");
     buf.append(editLogStream.getNumSync());