TestTezCommonUtils fails when compiled against hadoop version >= 2.8

$ cd tez-api
$ mvn test -Phadoop28 -P-hadoop27 -Dhadoop.version=2.8.3
-Dtest=TestTezCommonUtilsRunning org.apache.tez.common.TestTezCommonUtils
Tests run: 1, Failures: 0, Errors: 1, Skipped: 0, Time elapsed: 0.266 sec <<< FAILURE!
org.apache.tez.common.TestTezCommonUtils  Time elapsed: 0.265 sec  <<< ERROR!
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/datanode/fsdataset/impl/FsDatasetFactory
	at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:381)
	at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:424)
	at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:331)
	at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:357)
	at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.datanode.FsDatasetTestUtils$Factory.getFactory(FsDatasetTestUtils.java:47)
	at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.MiniDFSCluster$Builder.<init>(MiniDFSCluster.java:199)
	at org.apache.tez.common.TestTezCommonUtils.setup(TestTezCommonUtils.java:60)