LVM2 does not have metadata balancing support across physical volumes

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Issue

  • LVM commands such as pvs, vgs, lvs are taking a long time to complete on a system with a large number of physical volumes.
  • I would like to remove LVM metadata from some physical volumes to speed up LVM commands.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 4, 5, 6
  • LVM with a large number of physical volumes

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