diff --git a/hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/Store.java b/hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/Store.java
index 28e1cc80fb5..71acded0920 100644
--- a/hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/Store.java
+++ b/hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/Store.java
@@ -583,7 +583,9 @@ public class Store extends SchemaConfigured implements HeapSize {
         this.family.getBloomFilterType(), this.dataBlockEncoder);
     passSchemaMetricsTo(sf);
 
-    sf.createReader();
+    StoreFile.Reader r = sf.createReader();
+    this.storeSize += r.length();
+    this.totalUncompressedBytes += r.getTotalUncompressedBytes();
 
     LOG.info("Moved HFile " + srcPath + " into store directory " +
         homedir + " - updating store file list.");