diff --git a/trie/triedb/pathdb/asyncnodebuffer.go b/trie/triedb/pathdb/asyncnodebuffer.go
index c8c3921177..24b29f6593 100644
--- a/trie/triedb/pathdb/asyncnodebuffer.go
+++ b/trie/triedb/pathdb/asyncnodebuffer.go
@@ -21,9 +21,11 @@ var _ trienodebuffer = &asyncnodebuffer{}
 // asyncnodebuffer implement trienodebuffer interface, and aysnc the nodecache
 // to disk.
 type asyncnodebuffer struct {
-	mux        sync.RWMutex
-	current    *nodecache
-	background *nodecache
+	mux          sync.RWMutex
+	current      *nodecache
+	background   *nodecache
+	stopFlushing uint64
+	flushing     uint64
 }
 
 // newAsyncNodeBuffer initializes the async node buffer with the provided nodes.
@@ -125,6 +127,10 @@ func (a *asyncnodebuffer) flush(db ethdb.KeyValueStore, clean *fastcache.Cache,
 	a.mux.Lock()
 	defer a.mux.Unlock()
 
+	if atomic.LoadUint64(&a.stopFlushing) == 1 {
+		return nil
+	}
+
 	if force {
 		for {
 			if atomic.LoadUint64(&a.background.immutable) == 1 {
@@ -149,7 +155,9 @@ func (a *asyncnodebuffer) flush(db ethdb.KeyValueStore, clean *fastcache.Cache,
 	atomic.StoreUint64(&a.current.immutable, 1)
 	a.current, a.background = a.background, a.current
 
+	atomic.StoreUint64(&a.flushing, 1)
 	go func(persistId uint64) {
+		defer atomic.StoreUint64(&a.flushing, 0)
 		for {
 			err := a.background.flush(db, clean, persistId)
 			if err == nil {
@@ -162,6 +170,15 @@ func (a *asyncnodebuffer) flush(db ethdb.KeyValueStore, clean *fastcache.Cache,
 	return nil
 }
 
+func (a *asyncnodebuffer) waitAndStopFlushing() {
+	atomic.StoreUint64(&a.stopFlushing, 1)
+	if atomic.LoadUint64(&a.flushing) == 1 {
+		time.Sleep(time.Duration(1) * time.Second)
+		log.Info("waiting background memory table flush to disk")
+	}
+	return
+}
+
 func (a *asyncnodebuffer) getAllNodes() map[common.Hash]map[string]*trienode.Node {
 	a.mux.Lock()
 	defer a.mux.Unlock()
diff --git a/trie/triedb/pathdb/disklayer.go b/trie/triedb/pathdb/disklayer.go
index 59be04c744..36ff11a1a2 100644
--- a/trie/triedb/pathdb/disklayer.go
+++ b/trie/triedb/pathdb/disklayer.go
@@ -72,6 +72,9 @@ type trienodebuffer interface {
 
 	// getLayers return the size of cached difflayers.
 	getLayers() uint64
+
+	// waitFlushing will block unit writing the trie nodes of trienodebuffer to disk
+	waitAndStopFlushing()
 }
 
 func NewTrieNodeBuffer(sync bool, limit int, nodes map[common.Hash]map[string]*trienode.Node, layers uint64) trienodebuffer {
diff --git a/trie/triedb/pathdb/journal.go b/trie/triedb/pathdb/journal.go
index 3c7884cdf4..4d550dd472 100644
--- a/trie/triedb/pathdb/journal.go
+++ b/trie/triedb/pathdb/journal.go
@@ -338,6 +338,10 @@ func (dl *diffLayer) journal(w io.Writer) error {
 // flattening everything down (bad for reorgs). And this function will mark the
 // database as read-only to prevent all following mutation to disk.
 func (db *Database) Journal(root common.Hash) error {
+	// Run the journaling
+	db.lock.Lock()
+	defer db.lock.Unlock()
+
 	// Retrieve the head layer to journal from.
 	l := db.tree.get(root)
 	if l == nil {
@@ -351,10 +355,8 @@ func (db *Database) Journal(root common.Hash) error {
 	}
 	start := time.Now()
 
-	// Run the journaling
-	db.lock.Lock()
-	defer db.lock.Unlock()
-
+	// wait and stop the flush trienodebuffer, for async node buffer need fixed diskroot
+	disk.buffer.waitAndStopFlushing()
 	// Short circuit if the database is in read only mode.
 	if db.readOnly {
 		return errSnapshotReadOnly
diff --git a/trie/triedb/pathdb/nodebuffer.go b/trie/triedb/pathdb/nodebuffer.go
index 9d79df37ff..12caf148d6 100644
--- a/trie/triedb/pathdb/nodebuffer.go
+++ b/trie/triedb/pathdb/nodebuffer.go
@@ -241,6 +241,10 @@ func (b *nodebuffer) flush(db ethdb.KeyValueStore, clean *fastcache.Cache, id ui
 	return nil
 }
 
+func (b *nodebuffer) waitAndStopFlushing() {
+	return
+}
+
 // writeNodes writes the trie nodes into the provided database batch.
 // Note this function will also inject all the newly written nodes
 // into clean cache.