diff --git a/hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/HStore.java b/hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/HStore.java
index db868fdeba5..ca6e591aba1 100644
--- a/hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/HStore.java
+++ b/hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/HStore.java
@@ -2605,6 +2605,11 @@ public class HStore implements Store, HeapSize, StoreConfigInformation, Propagat
             filesToRemove.add(file);
             // Only add the length if we successfully added the file to `filesToRemove`
             storeFileSizes.add(length);
+          } else {
+            LOG.info("Can't archive compacted file " + file.getPath()
+                + " because of either isCompactedAway = " + file.isCompactedAway()
+                + " or file has reference, isReferencedInReads = " + file.isReferencedInReads()
+                + ", skipping for now.");
           }
         } catch (Exception e) {
           LOG.error("Exception while trying to close the compacted store file {}",