diff --git a/lucene/core/src/java/org/apache/lucene/util/Constants.java b/lucene/core/src/java/org/apache/lucene/util/Constants.java
index 1bbfb6a96d1..44f54461ce3 100644
--- a/lucene/core/src/java/org/apache/lucene/util/Constants.java
+++ b/lucene/core/src/java/org/apache/lucene/util/Constants.java
@@ -46,6 +46,8 @@ public final class Constants {
   public static final boolean SUN_OS = OS_NAME.startsWith("SunOS");
   /** True iff running on Mac OS X */
   public static final boolean MAC_OS_X = OS_NAME.startsWith("Mac OS X");
+  /** True iff running on FreeBSD */
+  public static final boolean FREE_BSD = OS_NAME.startsWith("FreeBSD");
 
   public static final String OS_ARCH = System.getProperty("os.arch");
   public static final String OS_VERSION = System.getProperty("os.version");
diff --git a/solr/core/src/test/org/apache/solr/cloud/hdfs/HdfsTestUtil.java b/solr/core/src/test/org/apache/solr/cloud/hdfs/HdfsTestUtil.java
index 26e5cb0e2b4..3da83ea9700 100644
--- a/solr/core/src/test/org/apache/solr/cloud/hdfs/HdfsTestUtil.java
+++ b/solr/core/src/test/org/apache/solr/cloud/hdfs/HdfsTestUtil.java
@@ -35,6 +35,8 @@ public class HdfsTestUtil {
 
   public static MiniDFSCluster setupClass(String dataDir) throws Exception {
     LuceneTestCase.assumeFalse("HDFS tests on Windows require Cygwin", Constants.WINDOWS);
+    LuceneTestCase.assumeFalse("HDFS do not work well with FreeBSD blackhole setup", Constants.FREE_BSD);
+   // LuceneTestCase.assumeFalse("HDFS tests on Windows require Cygwin", Constants.F);
     File dir = new File(dataDir);
     new File(dataDir).mkdirs();