diff --git a/WHATS_NEW b/WHATS_NEW
index 179e52c85..2780834fe 100644
--- a/WHATS_NEW
+++ b/WHATS_NEW
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ Version 2.02.98 -
   Allow non power of 2 thin chunk sizes if thin pool driver supports that.
   Allow limited metadata changes when PVs are missing via [vg|lv]change.
   Do not start dmeventd for lvchange --resync when monitoring is off.
+  Remove pvscan --cache from lvm2-lvmetad init script.
   Remove ExecStartPost with pvscan --cache from lvm2-lvmetad.service.
   Report invalid percentage for property snap_percent of non-snaphot LVs.
   Disallow convertion of thins to mirrors.
diff --git a/scripts/lvm2_lvmetad_init_red_hat.in b/scripts/lvm2_lvmetad_init_red_hat.in
index 888c730cd..08e920ead 100644
--- a/scripts/lvm2_lvmetad_init_red_hat.in
+++ b/scripts/lvm2_lvmetad_init_red_hat.in
@@ -38,12 +38,9 @@ DAEMON=lvmetad
 exec_prefix=@exec_prefix@
 sbindir=@sbindir@
 
-lvm_pvscan="${sbindir}/lvm pvscan --cache"
-
 LOCK_FILE="/var/lock/subsys/$DAEMON"
 PID_FILE="@LVMETAD_PIDFILE@"
 
-
 rh_status() {
 	status -p $PID_FILE $DAEMON
 }
@@ -55,7 +52,7 @@ rh_status_q() {
 start()
 {
 	ret=0
-	action "Starting LVM metadata daemon:" $DAEMON && ${lvm_pvscan} > /dev/null || ret=$?
+	action "Starting LVM metadata daemon:" $DAEMON || ret=$?
 	return $ret
 }