diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/MiniDFSCluster.java b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/MiniDFSCluster.java
index a2e59515d8b5c..874e5967c230d 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/MiniDFSCluster.java
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/MiniDFSCluster.java
@@ -1021,7 +1021,7 @@ private void configureNameService(MiniDFSNNTopology.NSConf nameservice, int nsCo
     Collection<URI> prevNNDirs = null;
     for (NNConf nn : nameservice.getNNs()) {
       initNameNodeConf(conf, nsId, nsCounter, nn.getNnId(), manageNameDfsDirs,
-          manageNameDfsDirs,  nnIndex);
+          enableManagedDfsDirsRedundancy,  nnIndex);
       Collection<URI> namespaceDirs = FSNamesystem.getNamespaceDirs(conf);
       if (format) {
         // delete the existing namespaces