diff --git a/cmd/common-main.go b/cmd/common-main.go
index aa8fcfbfe..8b4786139 100644
--- a/cmd/common-main.go
+++ b/cmd/common-main.go
@@ -136,6 +136,7 @@ func init() {
 
 	gob.Register(StorageErr(""))
 	gob.Register(madmin.TimeInfo{})
+	gob.Register(madmin.XFSErrorConfigs{})
 	gob.Register(map[string]interface{}{})
 
 	defaultAWSCredProvider = []credentials.Provider{
diff --git a/cmd/peer-rest-client.go b/cmd/peer-rest-client.go
index 6d2e83bdb..fb4c41121 100644
--- a/cmd/peer-rest-client.go
+++ b/cmd/peer-rest-client.go
@@ -178,9 +178,7 @@ func (client *peerRESTClient) GetSysConfig(ctx context.Context) (info madmin.Sys
 	defer xhttp.DrainBody(respBody)
 
 	err = gob.NewDecoder(respBody).Decode(&info)
-	cfg := info.Config["time-info"]
-	if cfg != nil {
-		ti := cfg.(madmin.TimeInfo)
+	if ti, ok := info.Config["time-info"].(madmin.TimeInfo); ok {
 		ti.RoundtripDuration = roundtrip
 		info.Config["time-info"] = ti
 	}