diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
index 93a18092dc6..188e22eb239 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
@@ -1204,6 +1204,9 @@ Release 0.23.0 - Unreleased
 
    MAPREDUCE-2882. TestLineRecordReader depends on ant jars. (todd)
 
+   MAPREDUCE-2687. Fix NodeManager to use the right version of
+   LocalDirAllocator.getLocalPathToWrite. (mahadev & acmurthy) 
+
 Release 0.22.0 - Unreleased
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-nodemanager/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/nodemanager/containermanager/launcher/ContainerLaunch.java b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-nodemanager/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/nodemanager/containermanager/launcher/ContainerLaunch.java
index bcd2115d141..585ec852f30 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-nodemanager/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/nodemanager/containermanager/launcher/ContainerLaunch.java
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-nodemanager/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/nodemanager/containermanager/launcher/ContainerLaunch.java
@@ -100,7 +100,8 @@ public class ContainerLaunch implements Callable<Integer> {
       String appIdStr = app.toString();
       Path containerLogDir =
           this.logDirsSelector.getLocalPathForWrite(appIdStr + Path.SEPARATOR
-              + containerIdStr, LocalDirAllocator.SIZE_UNKNOWN, this.conf);
+              + containerIdStr, LocalDirAllocator.SIZE_UNKNOWN, this.conf, 
+              false);
       for (String str : command) {
         // TODO: Should we instead work via symlinks without this grammar?
         newCmds.add(str.replace(ApplicationConstants.LOG_DIR_EXPANSION_VAR,
@@ -147,7 +148,7 @@ public class ContainerLaunch implements Callable<Integer> {
               + Path.SEPARATOR + user + Path.SEPARATOR
               + ContainerLocalizer.APPCACHE + Path.SEPARATOR + appIdStr
               + Path.SEPARATOR + containerIdStr,
-              LocalDirAllocator.SIZE_UNKNOWN, this.conf);
+              LocalDirAllocator.SIZE_UNKNOWN, this.conf, false);
       try {
         // /////////// Write out the container-script in the nmPrivate space.
         String[] localDirs =