diff --git a/hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/wal/HLogSplitter.java b/hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/wal/HLogSplitter.java
index 3a248016033..8d500f2ba3d 100644
--- a/hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/wal/HLogSplitter.java
+++ b/hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/wal/HLogSplitter.java
@@ -83,13 +83,6 @@ import com.google.common.collect.Lists;
 public class HLogSplitter {
   private static final String LOG_SPLITTER_IMPL = "hbase.hlog.splitter.impl";
 
-  /**
-   * Name of file that holds recovered edits written by the wal log splitting
-   * code, one per region
-   */
-  public static final String RECOVERED_EDITS = "recovered.edits";
-
-
   static final Log LOG = LogFactory.getLog(HLogSplitter.class);
 
   private boolean hasSplit = false;
diff --git a/hbase-server/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/wal/TestHLogSplit.java b/hbase-server/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/wal/TestHLogSplit.java
index b7db8278a26..1e4f13140d9 100644
--- a/hbase-server/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/wal/TestHLogSplit.java
+++ b/hbase-server/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/wal/TestHLogSplit.java
@@ -1076,7 +1076,7 @@ public class TestHLogSplit {
       }
       Path tableDir = new Path(HBASEDIR, new String(TABLE_NAME));
       Path regionDir = new Path(tableDir, REGIONS.get(0));
-      Path recoveredEdits = new Path(regionDir, HLogSplitter.RECOVERED_EDITS);
+      Path recoveredEdits = new Path(regionDir, HLog.RECOVERED_EDITS_DIR);
       String region = "juliet";
       Path julietLog = new Path(HLOGDIR, HLOG_FILE_PREFIX + ".juliet");
       try {