Why is lvmetad still running after manually stopping it?

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Issue

After running systemctl stop lvm2-lvmetad, an lvmetad process still exists in the output of ps. Also systemctl status lvm2-lvmetad shows status active (running).

Environment

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

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