diff --git a/hadoop-hdds/common/src/main/resources/ozone-default.xml b/hadoop-hdds/common/src/main/resources/ozone-default.xml
index 331f489a0dd0..793bff1eb6f5 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdds/common/src/main/resources/ozone-default.xml
+++ b/hadoop-hdds/common/src/main/resources/ozone-default.xml
@@ -1492,7 +1492,7 @@
     <tag>OZONE, CLIENT, MANAGEMENT</tag>
     <description>The checksum type [NONE/ CRC32/ CRC32C/ SHA256/ MD5] determines
       which algorithm would be used to compute checksum for chunk data.
-      Default checksum type is SHA256.
+      Default checksum type is CRC32.
     </description>
   </property>