diff --git a/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/SparkContext.scala b/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/SparkContext.scala
index 37e067839775..71511b800633 100644
--- a/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/SparkContext.scala
+++ b/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/SparkContext.scala
@@ -988,7 +988,7 @@ class SparkContext(config: SparkConf) extends Logging with ExecutorAllocationCli
 
     // This is a hack to enforce loading hdfs-site.xml.
     // See SPARK-11227 for details.
-    FileSystem.get(new URI(path), hadoopConfiguration)
+    FileSystem.getLocal(hadoopConfiguration)
 
     // A Hadoop configuration can be about 10 KB, which is pretty big, so broadcast it.
     val confBroadcast = broadcast(new SerializableConfiguration(hadoopConfiguration))
@@ -1077,7 +1077,7 @@ class SparkContext(config: SparkConf) extends Logging with ExecutorAllocationCli
 
     // This is a hack to enforce loading hdfs-site.xml.
     // See SPARK-11227 for details.
-    FileSystem.get(new URI(path), hadoopConfiguration)
+    FileSystem.getLocal(hadoopConfiguration)
 
     // The call to NewHadoopJob automatically adds security credentials to conf,
     // so we don't need to explicitly add them ourselves