diff --git a/swift/proxy/controllers/base.py b/swift/proxy/controllers/base.py
index 6bf7ea0ef6..2fb7cd945e 100644
--- a/swift/proxy/controllers/base.py
+++ b/swift/proxy/controllers/base.py
@@ -1197,16 +1197,18 @@ class Controller(object):
         """
         return quorum_size(n)
 
-    def have_quorum(self, statuses, node_count):
+    def have_quorum(self, statuses, node_count, quorum=None):
         """
         Given a list of statuses from several requests, determine if
         a quorum response can already be decided.
 
         :param statuses: list of statuses returned
         :param node_count: number of nodes being queried (basically ring count)
+        :param quorum: number of statuses required for quorum
         :returns: True or False, depending on if quorum is established
         """
-        quorum = self._quorum_size(node_count)
+        if quorum is None:
+            quorum = self._quorum_size(node_count)
         if len(statuses) >= quorum:
             for hundred in (HTTP_CONTINUE, HTTP_OK, HTTP_MULTIPLE_CHOICES,
                             HTTP_BAD_REQUEST):
diff --git a/swift/proxy/controllers/obj.py b/swift/proxy/controllers/obj.py
index a83242b5f0..b04f9c3161 100644
--- a/swift/proxy/controllers/obj.py
+++ b/swift/proxy/controllers/obj.py
@@ -2171,7 +2171,7 @@ class ECObjectController(BaseObjectController):
             else:
                 # intermediate response phase - set return value to true only
                 # if there are enough 100-continue acknowledgements
-                if self.have_quorum(statuses, num_nodes):
+                if self.have_quorum(statuses, num_nodes, quorum=min_responses):
                     quorum = True
 
         return statuses, reasons, bodies, etags, quorum
@@ -2203,12 +2203,17 @@ class ECObjectController(BaseObjectController):
                                 nodes, min_conns, etag_hasher)
             final_phase = True
             need_quorum = False
-            min_resp = 2
+            # The .durable file will propagate in a replicated fashion; if
+            # one exists, the reconstructor will spread it around. Thus, we
+            # don't require as many .durable files to be successfully
+            # written as we do fragment archives in order to call the PUT a
+            # success.
+            min_conns = 2
             putters = [p for p in putters if not p.failed]
             # ignore response etags, and quorum boolean
             statuses, reasons, bodies, _etags, _quorum = \
                 self._get_put_responses(req, putters, len(nodes),
-                                        final_phase, min_resp,
+                                        final_phase, min_conns,
                                         need_quorum=need_quorum)
         except HTTPException as resp:
             return resp
diff --git a/test/unit/__init__.py b/test/unit/__init__.py
index 372fb58bbf..e839e5568c 100644
--- a/test/unit/__init__.py
+++ b/test/unit/__init__.py
@@ -704,6 +704,74 @@ def mock(update):
             delattr(module, attr)
 
 
+class FakeStatus(object):
+    """
+    This will work with our fake_http_connect, if you hand in one of these
+    instead of a status int or status int tuple to the "codes" iter you can
+    add some eventlet sleep to the expect and response stages of the
+    connection.
+    """
+
+    def __init__(self, status, expect_sleep=None, response_sleep=None):
+        """
+        :param status: the response status int, or a tuple of
+                       ([expect_status, ...], response_status)
+        :param expect_sleep: float, time to eventlet sleep during expect, can
+                             be a iter of floats
+        :param response_sleep: float, time to eventlet sleep during response
+        """
+        # connect exception
+        if isinstance(status, (Exception, eventlet.Timeout)):
+            raise status
+        if isinstance(status, tuple):
+            self.expect_status = list(status[:-1])
+            self.status = status[-1]
+            self.explicit_expect_list = True
+        else:
+            self.expect_status, self.status = ([], status)
+            self.explicit_expect_list = False
+        if not self.expect_status:
+            # when a swift backend service returns a status before reading
+            # from the body (mostly an error response) eventlet.wsgi will
+            # respond with that status line immediately instead of 100
+            # Continue, even if the client sent the Expect 100 header.
+            # BufferedHttp and the proxy both see these error statuses
+            # when they call getexpect, so our FakeConn tries to act like
+            # our backend services and return certain types of responses
+            # as expect statuses just like a real backend server would do.
+            if self.status in (507, 412, 409):
+                self.expect_status = [status]
+            else:
+                self.expect_status = [100, 100]
+
+        # setup sleep attributes
+        if not isinstance(expect_sleep, (list, tuple)):
+            expect_sleep = [expect_sleep] * len(self.expect_status)
+        self.expect_sleep_list = list(expect_sleep)
+        while len(self.expect_sleep_list) < len(self.expect_status):
+            self.expect_sleep_list.append(None)
+        self.response_sleep = response_sleep
+
+    def get_response_status(self):
+        if self.response_sleep is not None:
+            eventlet.sleep(self.response_sleep)
+        if self.expect_status and self.explicit_expect_list:
+            raise Exception('Test did not consume all fake '
+                            'expect status: %r' % (self.expect_status,))
+        if isinstance(self.status, (Exception, eventlet.Timeout)):
+            raise self.status
+        return self.status
+
+    def get_expect_status(self):
+        expect_sleep = self.expect_sleep_list.pop(0)
+        if expect_sleep is not None:
+            eventlet.sleep(expect_sleep)
+        expect_status = self.expect_status.pop(0)
+        if isinstance(expect_status, (Exception, eventlet.Timeout)):
+            raise expect_status
+        return expect_status
+
+
 class SlowBody(object):
     """
     This will work with our fake_http_connect, if you hand in these
@@ -741,29 +809,9 @@ def fake_http_connect(*code_iter, **kwargs):
         def __init__(self, status, etag=None, body='', timestamp='1',
                      headers=None, expect_headers=None, connection_id=None,
                      give_send=None):
-            # connect exception
-            if isinstance(status, (Exception, eventlet.Timeout)):
-                raise status
-            if isinstance(status, tuple):
-                self.expect_status = list(status[:-1])
-                self.status = status[-1]
-                self.explicit_expect_list = True
-            else:
-                self.expect_status, self.status = ([], status)
-                self.explicit_expect_list = False
-            if not self.expect_status:
-                # when a swift backend service returns a status before reading
-                # from the body (mostly an error response) eventlet.wsgi will
-                # respond with that status line immediately instead of 100
-                # Continue, even if the client sent the Expect 100 header.
-                # BufferedHttp and the proxy both see these error statuses
-                # when they call getexpect, so our FakeConn tries to act like
-                # our backend services and return certain types of responses
-                # as expect statuses just like a real backend server would do.
-                if self.status in (507, 412, 409):
-                    self.expect_status = [status]
-                else:
-                    self.expect_status = [100, 100]
+            if not isinstance(status, FakeStatus):
+                status = FakeStatus(status)
+            self._status = status
             self.reason = 'Fake'
             self.host = '1.2.3.4'
             self.port = '1234'
@@ -785,11 +833,6 @@ def fake_http_connect(*code_iter, **kwargs):
             eventlet.sleep()
 
         def getresponse(self):
-            if self.expect_status and self.explicit_expect_list:
-                raise Exception('Test did not consume all fake '
-                                'expect status: %r' % (self.expect_status,))
-            if isinstance(self.status, (Exception, eventlet.Timeout)):
-                raise self.status
             exc = kwargs.get('raise_exc')
             if exc:
                 if isinstance(exc, (Exception, eventlet.Timeout)):
@@ -797,16 +840,17 @@ def fake_http_connect(*code_iter, **kwargs):
                 raise Exception('test')
             if kwargs.get('raise_timeout_exc'):
                 raise eventlet.Timeout()
+            self.status = self._status.get_response_status()
             return self
 
         def getexpect(self):
-            expect_status = self.expect_status.pop(0)
-            if isinstance(self.expect_status, (Exception, eventlet.Timeout)):
-                raise self.expect_status
+            expect_status = self._status.get_expect_status()
             headers = dict(self.expect_headers)
             if expect_status == 409:
                 headers['X-Backend-Timestamp'] = self.timestamp
-            return FakeConn(expect_status, headers=headers)
+            response = FakeConn(expect_status, headers=headers)
+            response.status = expect_status
+            return response
 
         def getheaders(self):
             etag = self.etag
diff --git a/test/unit/proxy/controllers/test_obj.py b/test/unit/proxy/controllers/test_obj.py
index a38e753ae0..04cb57d934 100755
--- a/test/unit/proxy/controllers/test_obj.py
+++ b/test/unit/proxy/controllers/test_obj.py
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ from swift.proxy.controllers.base import get_info as _real_get_info
 from swift.common.storage_policy import POLICIES, ECDriverError
 
 from test.unit import FakeRing, FakeMemcache, fake_http_connect, \
-    debug_logger, patch_policies, SlowBody
+    debug_logger, patch_policies, SlowBody, FakeStatus
 from test.unit.proxy.test_server import node_error_count
 
 
@@ -1406,6 +1406,35 @@ class TestECObjController(BaseObjectControllerMixin, unittest.TestCase):
         self.assertEqual(1, len(error_lines))
         self.assertTrue('retrying' in error_lines[0])
 
+    def test_PUT_with_slow_commits(self):
+        # It's important that this timeout be much less than the delay in
+        # the slow commit responses so that the slow commits are not waited
+        # for.
+        self.app.post_quorum_timeout = 0.01
+        req = swift.common.swob.Request.blank('/v1/a/c/o', method='PUT',
+                                              body='')
+        # plenty of slow commits
+        response_sleep = 5.0
+        codes = [FakeStatus(201, response_sleep=response_sleep)
+                 for i in range(self.replicas())]
+        # swap out some with regular fast responses
+        number_of_fast_responses_needed_to_be_quick_enough = 2
+        fast_indexes = random.sample(
+            xrange(self.replicas()),
+            number_of_fast_responses_needed_to_be_quick_enough)
+        for i in fast_indexes:
+            codes[i] = 201
+        expect_headers = {
+            'X-Obj-Metadata-Footer': 'yes',
+            'X-Obj-Multiphase-Commit': 'yes'
+        }
+        with set_http_connect(*codes, expect_headers=expect_headers):
+            start = time.time()
+            resp = req.get_response(self.app)
+            response_time = time.time() - start
+        self.assertEquals(resp.status_int, 201)
+        self.assertTrue(response_time < response_sleep)
+
 
 if __name__ == '__main__':
     unittest.main()
diff --git a/test/unit/proxy/test_server.py b/test/unit/proxy/test_server.py
index 3319696eb7..3b0115bbfc 100644
--- a/test/unit/proxy/test_server.py
+++ b/test/unit/proxy/test_server.py
@@ -6217,7 +6217,8 @@ class TestECMismatchedFA(unittest.TestCase):
         # pyeclib has checks for unequal-length; we don't want to trip those
         self.assertEqual(len(obj1), len(obj2))
 
-        # Servers obj1 and obj2 will have the first version of the object
+        # Server obj1 will have the first version of the object (obj2 also
+        # gets it, but that gets stepped on later)
         prosrv._error_limiting = {}
         with nested(
                 mock.patch.object(obj3srv, 'PUT', bad_disk),
@@ -6227,18 +6228,13 @@ class TestECMismatchedFA(unittest.TestCase):
             resp = put_req1.get_response(prosrv)
         self.assertEqual(resp.status_int, 201)
 
-        # Server obj3 (and, in real life, some handoffs) will have the
-        # second version of the object.
+        # Servers obj2 and obj3 will have the second version of the object.
         prosrv._error_limiting = {}
         with nested(
                 mock.patch.object(obj1srv, 'PUT', bad_disk),
-                mock.patch.object(obj2srv, 'PUT', bad_disk),
                 mock.patch(
-                    'swift.common.storage_policy.ECStoragePolicy.quorum'),
-                mock.patch(
-                    'swift.proxy.controllers.base.Controller._quorum_size',
-                    lambda *a, **kw: 1)):
-            type(ec_policy).quorum = mock.PropertyMock(return_value=1)
+                    'swift.common.storage_policy.ECStoragePolicy.quorum')):
+            type(ec_policy).quorum = mock.PropertyMock(return_value=2)
             resp = put_req2.get_response(prosrv)
         self.assertEqual(resp.status_int, 201)
 
@@ -6258,10 +6254,10 @@ class TestECMismatchedFA(unittest.TestCase):
                                 environ={"REQUEST_METHOD": "GET"},
                                 headers={"X-Auth-Token": "t"})
         prosrv._error_limiting = {}
-        with mock.patch.object(obj3srv, 'GET', bad_disk):
+        with mock.patch.object(obj1srv, 'GET', bad_disk):
             resp = get_req.get_response(prosrv)
         self.assertEqual(resp.status_int, 200)
-        self.assertEqual(resp.body, obj1)
+        self.assertEqual(resp.body, obj2)
 
         # A GET that sees 2 mismatching FAs will fail
         get_req = Request.blank("/v1/a/ec-crazytown/obj",