HDFS-9639. Inconsistent Logging in BootstrapStandby. (Contributed by Xiaobing Zhou)

hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt

@@ -2581,6 +2581,9 @@ Release 2.8.0 - UNRELEASED
     HDFS-9493. Test o.a.h.hdfs.server.namenode.TestMetaSave fails in trunk.
     (Tony Wu via lei)
 
+    HDFS-9639. Inconsistent Logging in BootstrapStandby. (Xiaobing Zhou via
+    Arpit Agarwal)
+
 Release 2.7.3 - UNRELEASED
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES

hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/namenode/ha/BootstrapStandby.java

@@ -376,11 +376,8 @@ public class BootstrapStandby implements Tool, Configurable {
           "Please copy these logs into the shared edits storage " + 
           "or call saveNamespace on the active node.\n" +
           "Error: " + e.getLocalizedMessage();
-      if (LOG.isDebugEnabled()) {
-        LOG.debug(msg, e);
-      } else {
-        LOG.fatal(msg);
-      }
+      LOG.fatal(msg, e);
+
       return false;
     }
   }