diff --git a/dynamometer-workload/src/main/java/com/linkedin/dynamometer/workloadgenerator/audit/AuditReplayThread.java b/dynamometer-workload/src/main/java/com/linkedin/dynamometer/workloadgenerator/audit/AuditReplayThread.java
index 726e3c98f7..c007ff160c 100644
--- a/dynamometer-workload/src/main/java/com/linkedin/dynamometer/workloadgenerator/audit/AuditReplayThread.java
+++ b/dynamometer-workload/src/main/java/com/linkedin/dynamometer/workloadgenerator/audit/AuditReplayThread.java
@@ -22,7 +22,6 @@
 import org.apache.hadoop.fs.Path;
 import org.apache.hadoop.fs.permission.FsPermission;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.DFSClient;
-import org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.DynoDFSUtil;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.DistributedFileSystem;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.protocol.HdfsFileStatus;
 import org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.Counter;
@@ -70,7 +69,7 @@ public class AuditReplayThread extends Thread {
     createBlocks = mapperConf.getBoolean(AuditReplayMapper.CREATE_BLOCKS_KEY,
         AuditReplayMapper.CREATE_BLOCKS_DEFAULT);
     fs = FileSystem.get(URI.create(namenodeURI), mapperConf);
-    dfsClient = DynoDFSUtil.getDFSClient((DistributedFileSystem) fs);
+    dfsClient = ((DistributedFileSystem) fs).getClient();
     LOG.info("Start timestamp: " + startTimestampMs);
     for (REPLAYCOUNTERS rc : REPLAYCOUNTERS.values()) {
       replayCountersMap.put(rc, new GenericCounter());
diff --git a/dynamometer-workload/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/DynoDFSUtil.java b/dynamometer-workload/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/DynoDFSUtil.java
deleted file mode 100644
index 741919e28a..0000000000
--- a/dynamometer-workload/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/DynoDFSUtil.java
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
-/**
- * Copyright 2017 LinkedIn Corporation. All rights reserved. Licensed under the BSD-2 Clause license.
- * See LICENSE in the project root for license information.
- */
-package org.apache.hadoop.hdfs;
-
-public class DynoDFSUtil {
-
-  public static DFSClient getDFSClient(DistributedFileSystem dfs) {
-    return dfs.dfs;
-  }
-
-}