diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs-client/src/test/resources/log4j.properties b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs-client/src/test/resources/log4j.properties
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..7378846711
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs-client/src/test/resources/log4j.properties
@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+#
+#   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+#   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+#   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+#   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+#   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+#   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+#   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+#   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+#   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+#   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+#   limitations under the License.
+#
+# log4j configuration used during build and unit tests
+
+log4j.rootLogger=info,stdout
+log4j.threshold=ALL
+log4j.appender.stdout=org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender
+log4j.appender.stdout.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
+log4j.appender.stdout.layout.ConversionPattern=%d{ISO8601} [%t] %-5p %c{2} (%F:%M(%L)) - %m%n
+
+#
+# NameNode metrics logging.
+# The default is to retain two namenode-metrics.log files up to 64MB each.
+#
+log4j.logger.NameNodeMetricsLog=INFO,NNMETRICSRFA
+log4j.additivity.NameNodeMetricsLog=false
+log4j.appender.NNMETRICSRFA=org.apache.log4j.RollingFileAppender
+log4j.appender.NNMETRICSRFA.File=${hadoop.log.dir}/namenode-metrics.log
+log4j.appender.NNMETRICSRFA.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
+log4j.appender.NNMETRICSRFA.layout.ConversionPattern=%d{ISO8601} %m%n
+log4j.appender.NNMETRICSRFA.MaxBackupIndex=1
+log4j.appender.NNMETRICSRFA.MaxFileSize=64MB
+
+#
+# DataNode metrics logging.
+# The default is to retain two datanode-metrics.log files up to 64MB each.
+#
+log4j.logger.DataNodeMetricsLog=INFO,DNMETRICSRFA
+log4j.additivity.DataNodeMetricsLog=false
+log4j.appender.DNMETRICSRFA=org.apache.log4j.RollingFileAppender
+log4j.appender.DNMETRICSRFA.File=${hadoop.log.dir}/datanode-metrics.log
+log4j.appender.DNMETRICSRFA.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
+log4j.appender.DNMETRICSRFA.layout.ConversionPattern=%d{ISO8601} %m%n
+log4j.appender.DNMETRICSRFA.MaxBackupIndex=1
+log4j.appender.DNMETRICSRFA.MaxFileSize=64MB
diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
index 26079cb789..910753a44f 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
@@ -2239,6 +2239,8 @@ Release 2.8.0 - UNRELEASED
     HDFS-9360. Storage type usage isn't updated properly after file deletion.
     (Ming Ma via xyao)
 
+    HDFS-9378. hadoop-hdfs-client tests do not write logs. (cnauroth)
+
 Release 2.7.3 - UNRELEASED
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES