diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/bin/hadoop-daemon.sh b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/bin/hadoop-daemon.sh
index 42d32cf9a0..bcc1f8e543 100755
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/bin/hadoop-daemon.sh
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/bin/hadoop-daemon.sh
@@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ case $startStop in
     echo starting $command, logging to $log
     cd "$HADOOP_PREFIX"
     case $command in
-      namenode|secondarynamenode|datanode|dfs|dfsadmin|fsck|balancer)
+      namenode|secondarynamenode|datanode|dfs|dfsadmin|fsck|balancer|zkfc)
         if [ -z "$HADOOP_HDFS_HOME" ]; then
           hdfsScript="$HADOOP_PREFIX"/bin/hdfs
         else
diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.HDFS-3042.txt b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.HDFS-3042.txt
index c41f7d3a0b..8e523dca9c 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.HDFS-3042.txt
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.HDFS-3042.txt
@@ -7,3 +7,5 @@ branch is merged.
 HDFS-2185. HDFS portion of ZK-based FailoverController (todd)
 
 HDFS-3200. Scope all ZKFC configurations by nameservice (todd)
+
+HDFS-3223. add zkfc to hadoop-daemon.sh script (todd)