diff --git a/CHANGES.txt b/CHANGES.txt
index b36a818d797..6b19816df44 100644
--- a/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/CHANGES.txt
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ Hbase Change Log
                hadoop-0.17.0 is released
    HBASE-638   Purge \r from src
    HBASE-644   DroppedSnapshotException but RegionServer doesn't restart
+   HBASE-641   Improve master split logging
 
   IMPROVEMENTS
    HBASE-559   MR example job to count table rows
diff --git a/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/HLog.java b/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/HLog.java
index 1ebb67413f4..9f6ba48c199 100644
--- a/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/HLog.java
+++ b/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/HLog.java
@@ -599,7 +599,8 @@ public class HLog implements HConstants {
             w.append(key, val);
           }
           if (LOG.isDebugEnabled()) {
-            LOG.debug("Applied " + count + " total edits");
+            LOG.debug("Applied " + count + " total edits from " +
+              logfiles[i].getPath().toString());
           }
         } catch (IOException e) {
           e = RemoteExceptionHandler.checkIOException(e);