diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
index dde1d1ef72..1f1aaf3c80 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
@@ -65,6 +65,8 @@ Trunk (unreleased changes)
 
     HDFS-2294. Download of commons-daemon TAR should not be under target (tucu)
 
+    HDFS-2322. the build fails in Windows because commons-daemon TAR cannot be fetched. (tucu)
+
   BUG FIXES
     HDFS-2287. TestParallelRead has a small off-by-one bug. (todd)
 
diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/pom.xml b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/pom.xml
index 3fba5b79fe..bcb9b078c5 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/pom.xml
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/pom.xml
@@ -310,7 +310,7 @@
               <goal>run</goal>
             </goals>
             <configuration>
-              <target>
+              <target unless="windows.build">
                 <condition property="commons.daemon.os.name" value="darwin">
                     <os name="Mac OS X"/>
                 </condition>
@@ -352,6 +352,18 @@
   </build>
 
   <profiles>
+    <profile>
+      <id>windows</id>
+      <activation>
+        <activeByDefault>false</activeByDefault>
+        <os>
+          <family>windows</family>
+        </os>
+      </activation>
+      <properties>
+        <windows.build>true</windows.build>
+      </properties>
+    </profile>
     <profile>
       <id>native</id>
       <activation>