diff --git a/hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/master/SplitLogManager.java b/hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/master/SplitLogManager.java
index a9bfbf2f7ad..aa0b5072f15 100644
--- a/hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/master/SplitLogManager.java
+++ b/hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/master/SplitLogManager.java
@@ -278,7 +278,8 @@ public class SplitLogManager extends ZooKeeperListener {
       // recover-lease is done. totalSize will be under in most cases and the
       // metrics that it drives will also be under-reported.
       totalSize += lf.getLen();
-      if (enqueueSplitTask(lf.getPath().toString(), batch) == false) {
+      String pathToLog = FSUtils.removeRootPath(lf.getPath(), conf);
+      if (!enqueueSplitTask(pathToLog, batch)) {
         throw new IOException("duplicate log split scheduled for " + lf.getPath());
       }
     }
diff --git a/hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/SplitLogWorker.java b/hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/SplitLogWorker.java
index ff5d98b8217..4d85b52ab90 100644
--- a/hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/SplitLogWorker.java
+++ b/hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/SplitLogWorker.java
@@ -108,8 +108,8 @@ public class SplitLogWorker extends ZooKeeperListener implements Runnable {
         // interrupted or has encountered a transient error and when it has
         // encountered a bad non-retry-able persistent error.
         try {
-          if (!HLogSplitter.splitLogFile(rootdir,
-              fs.getFileStatus(new Path(filename)), fs, conf, p, sequenceIdChecker)) {
+          if (!HLogSplitter.splitLogFile(rootdir, fs.getFileStatus(new Path(rootdir, filename)),
+            fs, conf, p, sequenceIdChecker)) {
             return Status.PREEMPTED;
           }
         } catch (InterruptedIOException iioe) {
diff --git a/hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/util/FSUtils.java b/hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/util/FSUtils.java
index af154bede3d..c06e28e7847 100644
--- a/hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/util/FSUtils.java
+++ b/hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/util/FSUtils.java
@@ -635,6 +635,23 @@ public abstract class FSUtils {
     }
   }
 
+  /**
+   * Checks for the presence of the root path (using the provided conf object) in the given path. If
+   * it exists, this method removes it and returns the String representation of remaining relative path.
+   * @param path
+   * @param conf
+   * @return String representation of the remaining relative path
+   * @throws IOException
+   */
+  public static String removeRootPath(Path path, final Configuration conf) throws IOException {
+    Path root = FSUtils.getRootDir(conf);
+    String pathStr = path.toString();
+    // check that the path is absolute... it has the root path in it.
+    if (!pathStr.startsWith(root.toString())) return pathStr;
+    // if not, return as it is.
+    return pathStr.substring(root.toString().length() + 1);// remove the "/" too.
+  }
+
   /**
    * If DFS, check safe mode and if so, wait until we clear it.
    * @param conf configuration