diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
index 10f5f7e21f..6eec661d15 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
@@ -72,6 +72,8 @@ Trunk (unreleased changes)
     HADOOP-7876. Provided access to encoded key in DelegationKey for
     use in protobuf based RPCs. (suresh)
 
+    HADOOP-7886. Add toString to FileStatus. (SreeHari via jghoman)
+
   BUGS
 
     HADOOP-7606. Upgrade Jackson to version 1.7.1 to match the version required
diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/FileStatus.java b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/FileStatus.java
index b37fd93add..f4492e2f23 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/FileStatus.java
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/FileStatus.java
@@ -331,4 +331,23 @@ public boolean equals(Object o) {
   public int hashCode() {
     return getPath().hashCode();
   }
+  
+  @Override
+  public String toString() {
+    StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
+    sb.append(getClass().getSimpleName()); 
+    sb.append("{");
+    sb.append("path=" + path);
+    sb.append("; isDirectory=" + isdir);
+    if(!isDirectory()){
+      sb.append("; length=" + length);
+      sb.append("; replication=" + block_replication);
+      sb.append("; blocksize=" + blocksize);
+    }
+    sb.append("; owner=" + owner);
+    sb.append("; group=" + group);
+    sb.append("; permission=" + permission);
+    sb.append("}");
+    return sb.toString();
+  }
 }