diff --git a/CHANGES.txt b/CHANGES.txt
index 9b02bc0751c..657c28f26ab 100644
--- a/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/CHANGES.txt
@@ -148,6 +148,7 @@ Release 0.21.0 - Unreleased
    HBASE-1942  Update hadoop jars in trunk; update to r831142
    HBASE-1943  Remove AgileJSON; unused
    HBASE-1944  Add a "deferred log flush" attribute to HTD
+   HBASE-1945  Remove META and ROOT memcache size bandaid 
 
   OPTIMIZATIONS
    HBASE-410   [testing] Speed up the test suite
diff --git a/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/HTableDescriptor.java b/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/HTableDescriptor.java
index b871e8439bb..5fc969a3275 100644
--- a/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/HTableDescriptor.java
+++ b/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/HTableDescriptor.java
@@ -114,7 +114,6 @@ public class HTableDescriptor implements WritableComparable<HTableDescriptor> {
     for(HColumnDescriptor descriptor : families) {
       this.families.put(descriptor.getName(), descriptor);
     }
-    setMemStoreFlushSize(16 * 1024);
   }
 
   /**