What does the message - 'WARNING: lvmetad is running but disabled' indicate?

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Issue

  • When any lvm commands are executed, following warning message is getting displayed, what does the following warning message indicate? how to eliminate this message?

    $ lvm vgscan
  WARNING: lvmetad is running but disabled. Restart lvmetad before enabling it!
  Reading all physical volumes.  This may take a while...
  Found volume group "vg1" using metadata type lvm2

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5
  • lvm2-2.02.98-9.el6
  • lvm2-2.02.100-8.el6

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