diff --git a/pkg/fs/fs-multipart.go b/pkg/fs/fs-multipart.go
index fd94bbff2..8072af7b8 100644
--- a/pkg/fs/fs-multipart.go
+++ b/pkg/fs/fs-multipart.go
@@ -276,7 +276,7 @@ func (fs Filesystem) CreateObjectPart(bucket, object, uploadID, expectedMD5Sum s
 
 	objectPath := filepath.Join(bucketPath, object)
 	partPath := objectPath + fmt.Sprintf("$%d", partID)
-	partFile, err := atomic.FileCreate(partPath)
+	partFile, err := atomic.FileCreateWithPrefix(partPath, "")
 	if err != nil {
 		return "", probe.NewError(err)
 	}
@@ -307,7 +307,6 @@ func (fs Filesystem) CreateObjectPart(bucket, object, uploadID, expectedMD5Sum s
 			return "", probe.NewError(SignatureDoesNotMatch{})
 		}
 	}
-	partFile.File.Sync()
 	partFile.Close()
 
 	fi, err := os.Stat(partPath)
@@ -374,7 +373,7 @@ func (fs Filesystem) CompleteMultipartUpload(bucket, object, uploadID string, da
 	}
 
 	objectPath := filepath.Join(bucketPath, object)
-	file, err := atomic.FileCreate(objectPath)
+	file, err := atomic.FileCreateWithPrefix(objectPath, "")
 	if err != nil {
 		return ObjectMetadata{}, probe.NewError(err)
 	}
@@ -430,7 +429,6 @@ func (fs Filesystem) CompleteMultipartUpload(bucket, object, uploadID string, da
 		file.CloseAndPurge()
 		return ObjectMetadata{}, err.Trace()
 	}
-	file.File.Sync()
 	file.Close()
 
 	st, err := os.Stat(objectPath)
diff --git a/pkg/fs/fs-object.go b/pkg/fs/fs-object.go
index 98b04797a..1369db05b 100644
--- a/pkg/fs/fs-object.go
+++ b/pkg/fs/fs-object.go
@@ -207,7 +207,7 @@ func (fs Filesystem) CreateObject(bucket, object, expectedMD5Sum string, size in
 	}
 
 	// write object
-	file, err := atomic.FileCreate(objectPath)
+	file, err := atomic.FileCreateWithPrefix(objectPath, "")
 	if err != nil {
 		return ObjectMetadata{}, probe.NewError(err)
 	}
@@ -250,7 +250,6 @@ func (fs Filesystem) CreateObject(bucket, object, expectedMD5Sum string, size in
 			return ObjectMetadata{}, probe.NewError(SignatureDoesNotMatch{})
 		}
 	}
-	file.File.Sync()
 	file.Close()
 
 	st, err := os.Stat(objectPath)
diff --git a/vendor/github.com/minio/minio-xl/pkg/atomic/atomic.go b/vendor/github.com/minio/minio-xl/pkg/atomic/atomic.go
index 2e6d23ed3..e6969a690 100644
--- a/vendor/github.com/minio/minio-xl/pkg/atomic/atomic.go
+++ b/vendor/github.com/minio/minio-xl/pkg/atomic/atomic.go
@@ -33,6 +33,11 @@ type File struct {
 
 // Close the file replacing, returns an error if any
 func (f *File) Close() error {
+	// sync to the disk
+	err := f.Sync()
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
 	// close the embedded fd
 	if err := f.File.Close(); err != nil {
 		return err
@@ -58,12 +63,18 @@ func (f *File) CloseAndPurge() error {
 
 // FileCreate creates a new file at filePath for atomic writes, it also creates parent directories if they don't exist
 func FileCreate(filePath string) (*File, error) {
+	return FileCreateWithPrefix(filePath, "$deleteme.")
+}
+
+// FileCreateWithPrefix creates a new file at filePath for atomic writes, it also creates parent directories if they don't exist
+// prefix specifies the prefix of the temporary files so that cleaning stale temp files is easy
+func FileCreateWithPrefix(filePath string, prefix string) (*File, error) {
 	// if parent directories do not exist, ioutil.TempFile doesn't create them
 	// handle such a case with os.MkdirAll()
 	if err := os.MkdirAll(filepath.Dir(filePath), 0700); err != nil {
 		return nil, err
 	}
-	f, err := ioutil.TempFile(filepath.Dir(filePath), filepath.Base(filePath))
+	f, err := ioutil.TempFile(filepath.Dir(filePath), prefix+filepath.Base(filePath))
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, err
 	}
diff --git a/vendor/github.com/minio/minio-xl/pkg/quick/quick.go b/vendor/github.com/minio/minio-xl/pkg/quick/quick.go
index 65c7ca3de..92bb27b9a 100644
--- a/vendor/github.com/minio/minio-xl/pkg/quick/quick.go
+++ b/vendor/github.com/minio/minio-xl/pkg/quick/quick.go
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ import (
 	"sync"
 
 	"github.com/fatih/structs"
+	"github.com/minio/minio-xl/pkg/atomic"
 	"github.com/minio/minio-xl/pkg/probe"
 )
 
@@ -193,7 +194,15 @@ func (d config) Save(filename string) *probe.Error {
 		jsonData = []byte(strings.Replace(string(jsonData), "\n", "\r\n", -1))
 	}
 
-	err = ioutil.WriteFile(filename, jsonData, 0600)
+	atomicFile, err := atomic.FileCreate(filename)
+	if err != nil {
+		return probe.NewError(err)
+	}
+	_, err = atomicFile.Write(jsonData)
+	if err != nil {
+		return probe.NewError(err)
+	}
+	err = atomicFile.Close()
 	if err != nil {
 		return probe.NewError(err)
 	}
diff --git a/vendor/vendor.json b/vendor/vendor.json
index fede15a10..508195db1 100644
--- a/vendor/vendor.json
+++ b/vendor/vendor.json
@@ -39,8 +39,8 @@
 		},
 		{
 			"path": "github.com/minio/minio-xl/pkg/atomic",
-			"revision": "a5fc6d2430ba2ebcab31b938ab02a42bac85dc2e",
-			"revisionTime": "2015-10-20T11:16:42-07:00"
+			"revision": "008404af67dcf66bdde580245cd43951b425ed39",
+			"revisionTime": "2015-11-17T16:21:42-08:00"
 		},
 		{
 			"path": "github.com/minio/minio-xl/pkg/cpu",
@@ -69,8 +69,8 @@
 		},
 		{
 			"path": "github.com/minio/minio-xl/pkg/quick",
-			"revision": "a5fc6d2430ba2ebcab31b938ab02a42bac85dc2e",
-			"revisionTime": "2015-10-20T11:16:42-07:00"
+			"revision": "008404af67dcf66bdde580245cd43951b425ed39",
+			"revisionTime": "2015-11-17T16:21:42-08:00"
 		},
 		{
 			"path": "github.com/rs/cors",