diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
index 17cbe29355..89094bc7d2 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
@@ -1710,6 +1710,9 @@ Release 2.8.0 - UNRELEASED
     HDFS-9485. Make BlockManager#removeFromExcessReplicateMap accept BlockInfo
     instead of Block. (Mingliang Liu via jing9)
 
+    HDFS-9490. MiniDFSCluster should change block generation stamp via
+    FsDatasetTestUtils. (Tony Wu via lei)
+
   OPTIMIZATIONS
 
     HDFS-8026. Trace FSOutputSummer#writeChecksumChunks rather than
diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/MiniDFSCluster.java b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/MiniDFSCluster.java
index 6baea25c63..3e25177b00 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/MiniDFSCluster.java
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/MiniDFSCluster.java
@@ -2141,12 +2141,10 @@ public void truncateMeta(int i, ExtendedBlock blk, int newSize)
     getMaterializedReplica(i, blk).truncateMeta(newSize);
   }
 
-  public boolean changeGenStampOfBlock(int dnIndex, ExtendedBlock blk,
+  public void changeGenStampOfBlock(int dnIndex, ExtendedBlock blk,
       long newGenStamp) throws IOException {
-    File blockFile = getBlockFile(dnIndex, blk);
-    File metaFile = FsDatasetUtil.findMetaFile(blockFile);
-    return metaFile.renameTo(new File(DatanodeUtil.getMetaName(
-        blockFile.getAbsolutePath(), newGenStamp)));
+    getFsDatasetTestUtils(dnIndex)
+        .changeStoredGenerationStamp(blk, newGenStamp);
   }
 
   /*
diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/datanode/FsDatasetTestUtils.java b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/datanode/FsDatasetTestUtils.java
index 07fb7ceffa..fd47705bfe 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/datanode/FsDatasetTestUtils.java
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/datanode/FsDatasetTestUtils.java
@@ -242,4 +242,13 @@ Replica createReplicaUnderRecovery(ExtendedBlock block, long recoveryId)
    * Get the persistently stored generation stamp.
    */
   long getStoredGenerationStamp(ExtendedBlock block) throws IOException;
+
+  /**
+   * Change the persistently stored generation stamp.
+   * @param block the block whose generation stamp will be changed
+   * @param newGenStamp the new generation stamp
+   * @throws IOException
+   */
+  void changeStoredGenerationStamp(ExtendedBlock block, long newGenStamp)
+      throws IOException;
 }
diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/datanode/fsdataset/impl/FsDatasetImplTestUtils.java b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/datanode/fsdataset/impl/FsDatasetImplTestUtils.java
index 8fce163a25..320ae9f580 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/datanode/fsdataset/impl/FsDatasetImplTestUtils.java
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/datanode/fsdataset/impl/FsDatasetImplTestUtils.java
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@
 import org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileUtil;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.protocol.ExtendedBlock;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.datanode.DataNode;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.datanode.DatanodeUtil;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.datanode.FinalizedReplica;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.datanode.FsDatasetTestUtils;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.datanode.Replica;
@@ -47,6 +48,7 @@
 import java.io.RandomAccessFile;
 import java.nio.channels.FileChannel;
 import java.nio.file.Files;
+import java.nio.file.StandardCopyOption;
 import java.util.Random;
 
 /**
@@ -363,4 +365,16 @@ public long getStoredGenerationStamp(ExtendedBlock block) throws IOException {
     File[] files = FileUtil.listFiles(dir);
     return FsDatasetUtil.getGenerationStampFromFile(files, f);
   }
+
+  @Override
+  public void changeStoredGenerationStamp(
+      ExtendedBlock block, long newGenStamp) throws IOException {
+    File blockFile =
+        dataset.getBlockFile(block.getBlockPoolId(), block.getBlockId());
+    File metaFile = FsDatasetUtil.findMetaFile(blockFile);
+    File newMetaFile = new File(
+        DatanodeUtil.getMetaName(blockFile.getAbsolutePath(), newGenStamp));
+    Files.move(metaFile.toPath(), newMetaFile.toPath(),
+        StandardCopyOption.ATOMIC_MOVE);
+  }
 }
diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/namenode/ha/TestPendingCorruptDnMessages.java b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/namenode/ha/TestPendingCorruptDnMessages.java
index 443500cdc2..5f116d95cc 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/namenode/ha/TestPendingCorruptDnMessages.java
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/namenode/ha/TestPendingCorruptDnMessages.java
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ public void testChangedStorageId() throws IOException, URISyntaxException,
       // Change the gen stamp of the block on datanode to go back in time (gen
       // stamps start at 1000)
       ExtendedBlock block = DFSTestUtil.getFirstBlock(fs, filePath);
-      assertTrue(cluster.changeGenStampOfBlock(0, block, 900));
+      cluster.changeGenStampOfBlock(0, block, 900);
       
       // Run directory dsscanner to update Datanode's volumeMap
       DataNodeTestUtils.runDirectoryScanner(cluster.getDataNodes().get(0));