diff --git a/src/cluster.c b/src/cluster.c
index 00fa5d4a..ee5b6766 100644
--- a/src/cluster.c
+++ b/src/cluster.c
@@ -2156,7 +2156,7 @@ void clusterReadHandler(aeEventLoop *el, int fd, void *privdata, int mask) {
  * from event handlers that will do stuff with the same link later. */
 void clusterSendMessage(clusterLink *link, unsigned char *msg, size_t msglen) {
     if (sdslen(link->sndbuf) == 0 && msglen != 0)
-        aeCreateFileEvent(server.el,link->fd,AE_WRITABLE,
+        aeCreateFileEvent(server.el,link->fd,AE_WRITABLE|AE_BARRIER,
                     clusterWriteHandler,link);
 
     link->sndbuf = sdscatlen(link->sndbuf, msg, msglen);
@@ -2691,9 +2691,10 @@ void clusterSendFailoverAuthIfNeeded(clusterNode *node, clusterMsg *request) {
     }
 
     /* We can vote for this slave. */
-    clusterSendFailoverAuth(node);
     server.cluster->lastVoteEpoch = server.cluster->currentEpoch;
     node->slaveof->voted_time = mstime();
+    clusterDoBeforeSleep(CLUSTER_TODO_SAVE_CONFIG|CLUSTER_TODO_FSYNC_CONFIG);
+    clusterSendFailoverAuth(node);
     serverLog(LL_WARNING, "Failover auth granted to %.40s for epoch %llu",
         node->name, (unsigned long long) server.cluster->currentEpoch);
 }