diff --git a/CHANGES.txt b/CHANGES.txt
index e270cdbf4bd..9db27f4ee75 100644
--- a/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/CHANGES.txt
@@ -52,11 +52,7 @@ Bug fixes
  8. LUCENE-607: ParallelReader's TermEnum fails to advance properly to
     new fields (Chuck Williams, Christian Kohlschuetter via Yonik Seeley)
 
- 9. LUCENE-415: A previously unclean shutdown during indexing can cause
-    a non-empty segment file to be re-used, causing index corruption.
-    (Andy Hind via Yonik Seeley)
-
-10. LUCENE-610: Simple syntax change to allow compilation with ecj : 
+ 9. LUCENE-610: Simple syntax change to allow compilation with ecj : 
     disambiguate inner class scorer's use of doc() in BooleanScorer2.
     (DM Smith via Yonik Seeley)
 
@@ -68,7 +64,7 @@ Optimizations
 
 
 
-Release 2.0.0 2005-05-26
+Release 2.0.0 2006-05-26
 
 API Changes
 
diff --git a/src/java/org/apache/lucene/store/FSDirectory.java b/src/java/org/apache/lucene/store/FSDirectory.java
index bea618a5c4a..88cbe5ea457 100644
--- a/src/java/org/apache/lucene/store/FSDirectory.java
+++ b/src/java/org/apache/lucene/store/FSDirectory.java
@@ -496,13 +496,6 @@ class FSIndexOutput extends BufferedIndexOutput {
 
   public FSIndexOutput(File path) throws IOException {
     file = new RandomAccessFile(path, "rw");
-    if (file.length() == 0) {
-      // This can happen if there was a previous crash / unclean shutdown that
-      // left files around, then we end up re-using a segment name.
-      // If we have a logging framework in the future, a warning here might be
-      // a good idea.
-      file.setLength(0);
-    }
   }
 
   /** output methods: */