diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
index c5baf5b8eb..f693cd746d 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
@@ -687,6 +687,9 @@ Release 0.23.0 - Unreleased
     HDFS-2266.  Add Namesystem and SafeMode interfaces to avoid directly
     referring to FSNamesystem in BlockManager. (szetszwo)
 
+    HDFS-1217.  Change some NameNode methods from public to package private.
+    (Laxman via szetszwo)
+
   OPTIMIZATIONS
 
     HDFS-1458. Improve checkpoint performance by avoiding unnecessary image
diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/namenode/NameNode.java b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/namenode/NameNode.java
index 7f0681a2fd..52f576484a 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/namenode/NameNode.java
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/namenode/NameNode.java
@@ -301,7 +301,7 @@ public static InetSocketAddress getAddress(Configuration conf) {
    * @param filesystemURI
    * @return address of file system
    */
-  public static InetSocketAddress getAddress(URI filesystemURI) {
+  static InetSocketAddress getAddress(URI filesystemURI) {
     String authority = filesystemURI.getAuthority();
     if (authority == null) {
       throw new IllegalArgumentException(String.format(
@@ -1262,7 +1262,7 @@ public UpgradeCommand processUpgradeCommand(UpgradeCommand comm) throws IOExcept
    * @param nodeReg data node registration
    * @throws IOException
    */
-  public void verifyRequest(NodeRegistration nodeReg) throws IOException {
+  void verifyRequest(NodeRegistration nodeReg) throws IOException {
     verifyVersion(nodeReg.getVersion());
     if (!namesystem.getRegistrationID().equals(nodeReg.getRegistrationID())) {
       LOG.warn("Invalid registrationID - expected: "
@@ -1278,12 +1278,13 @@ public void verifyRequest(NodeRegistration nodeReg) throws IOException {
    * @param version
    * @throws IOException
    */
-  public void verifyVersion(int version) throws IOException {
+  void verifyVersion(int version) throws IOException {
     if (version != FSConstants.LAYOUT_VERSION)
       throw new IncorrectVersionException(version, "data node");
   }
     
-  public FSImage getFSImage() {
+  /** get FSImage */
+  FSImage getFSImage() {
     return namesystem.dir.fsImage;
   }
 
diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/datanode/TestDataNodeMultipleRegistrations.java b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/datanode/TestDataNodeMultipleRegistrations.java
index a98b0afd6e..7ad0b78817 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/datanode/TestDataNodeMultipleRegistrations.java
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/datanode/TestDataNodeMultipleRegistrations.java
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@
 import org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.common.HdfsConstants.StartupOption;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.datanode.DataNode.BPOfferService;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.datanode.FSDataset.VolumeInfo;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSImageTestUtil;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.NameNode;
 import org.junit.Assert;
 import org.junit.Before;
@@ -65,14 +66,14 @@ public void test2NNRegistration() throws IOException {
       assertNotNull("cannot create nn1", nn1);
       assertNotNull("cannot create nn2", nn2);
 
-      String bpid1 = nn1.getFSImage().getBlockPoolID();
-      String bpid2 = nn2.getFSImage().getBlockPoolID();
-      String cid1 = nn1.getFSImage().getClusterID();
-      String cid2 = nn2.getFSImage().getClusterID();
-      int lv1 = nn1.getFSImage().getLayoutVersion();
-      int lv2 = nn2.getFSImage().getLayoutVersion();
-      int ns1 = nn1.getFSImage().getNamespaceID();
-      int ns2 = nn2.getFSImage().getNamespaceID();
+      String bpid1 = FSImageTestUtil.getFSImage(nn1).getBlockPoolID();
+      String bpid2 = FSImageTestUtil.getFSImage(nn2).getBlockPoolID();
+      String cid1 = FSImageTestUtil.getFSImage(nn1).getClusterID();
+      String cid2 = FSImageTestUtil.getFSImage(nn2).getClusterID();
+      int lv1 =FSImageTestUtil.getFSImage(nn1).getLayoutVersion();
+      int lv2 = FSImageTestUtil.getFSImage(nn2).getLayoutVersion();
+      int ns1 = FSImageTestUtil.getFSImage(nn1).getNamespaceID();
+      int ns2 = FSImageTestUtil.getFSImage(nn2).getNamespaceID();
       assertNotSame("namespace ids should be different", ns1, ns2);
       LOG.info("nn1: lv=" + lv1 + ";cid=" + cid1 + ";bpid=" + bpid1 + ";uri="
           + nn1.getNameNodeAddress());
@@ -135,9 +136,9 @@ public void testFedSingleNN() throws IOException {
       NameNode nn1 = cluster.getNameNode();
       assertNotNull("cannot create nn1", nn1);
 
-      String bpid1 = nn1.getFSImage().getBlockPoolID();
-      String cid1 = nn1.getFSImage().getClusterID();
-      int lv1 = nn1.getFSImage().getLayoutVersion();
+      String bpid1 = FSImageTestUtil.getFSImage(nn1).getBlockPoolID();
+      String cid1 = FSImageTestUtil.getFSImage(nn1).getClusterID();
+      int lv1 = FSImageTestUtil.getFSImage(nn1).getLayoutVersion();
       LOG.info("nn1: lv=" + lv1 + ";cid=" + cid1 + ";bpid=" + bpid1 + ";uri="
           + nn1.getNameNodeAddress());
 
diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/namenode/FSImageTestUtil.java b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/namenode/FSImageTestUtil.java
index 5deccd5c22..4a8edb8475 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/namenode/FSImageTestUtil.java
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/namenode/FSImageTestUtil.java
@@ -27,7 +27,6 @@
 import java.util.Arrays;
 import java.util.Collections;
 import java.util.HashMap;
-import java.util.Iterator;
 import java.util.List;
 import java.util.Map;
 import java.util.Properties;
@@ -411,4 +410,9 @@ public static void logStorageContents(Log LOG, NNStorage storage) {
       }
     }
   }
+  
+  /** get the fsImage*/
+  public static FSImage getFSImage(NameNode node) {
+    return node.getFSImage();
+  }
 }
diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/tools/offlineImageViewer/TestOfflineImageViewer.java b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/tools/offlineImageViewer/TestOfflineImageViewer.java
index 5fc96882f6..05311f5359 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/tools/offlineImageViewer/TestOfflineImageViewer.java
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/tools/offlineImageViewer/TestOfflineImageViewer.java
@@ -129,7 +129,8 @@ private File initFsimage() throws IOException {
       
       // Determine location of fsimage file
       orig = FSImageTestUtil.findLatestImageFile(
-          cluster.getNameNode().getFSImage().getStorage().getStorageDir(0));
+          FSImageTestUtil.getFSImage(
+          cluster.getNameNode()).getStorage().getStorageDir(0));
       if (orig == null) {
         fail("Didn't generate or can't find fsimage");
       }