the device, so no writes can be happening and the device must have been flushed. In md_stop_writes we want to stop any internal sources of writes - i.e. resync - and flush out the metadata. The only code that was previously before some of this code is code to clean up the queue, the mddev, the gendisk, or sysfs, all of which is probably better after code that makes active changes (i.e. triggers writes). Signed-off-by: NeilBrown -