pvmove hangs a RHEL system or fails to complete when a physical volume holds more than one logical volume

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Issue

  • When trying to execute a pvmove where the physical volume holds more than one logical volume the process hangs and fails to complete.
  • Pvmove hangs when there are other I/O operations occurring on the physical volume

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) versions 4, 5, 6

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