diff --git a/hadoop-ozone/ozone-manager/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/ozone/om/KeyManagerImpl.java b/hadoop-ozone/ozone-manager/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/ozone/om/KeyManagerImpl.java
index da2d7728bafd..6e97ca2e7561 100644
--- a/hadoop-ozone/ozone-manager/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/ozone/om/KeyManagerImpl.java
+++ b/hadoop-ozone/ozone-manager/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/ozone/om/KeyManagerImpl.java
@@ -1680,9 +1680,7 @@ public List<OzoneFileStatus> listStatus(OmKeyArgs args, boolean recursive,
     TableIterator<String, ? extends Table.KeyValue<String, OmKeyInfo>> iterator;
     Iterator<Map.Entry<CacheKey<String>, CacheValue<OmKeyInfo>>>
         cacheIter = keyTable.cacheIterator();
-    String startCacheKey = OZONE_URI_DELIMITER + volumeName +
-        OZONE_URI_DELIMITER + bucketName + OZONE_URI_DELIMITER +
-        ((startKey.equals(OZONE_URI_DELIMITER)) ? "" : startKey);
+    String startCacheKey = metadataManager.getOzoneKey(volumeName, bucketName, startKey);
 
     // First, find key in TableCache
     listStatusFindKeyInTableCache(cacheIter, keyArgs, startCacheKey,