o Little recipe for testing LVM2 with loopback devices.

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+Here's how I test new LVM2 builds without interfering with the stable
+LVM2 that is running the LV's on my development box.
+
+1) Create a set of loopback devices.
+
+2) Create a new directory to contain the LVM2 configuration files for
+   this setup.  (I use /etc/lvm_loops)
+
+3) Write a suitable lvm.conf file, this goes in the directory you just
+   created.  eg, my /etc/lvm_loops/lvm.conf looks like:
+
+   log {
+        file="/tmp/lvm2_loop.log"
+        level=9
+        verbose=0
+        overwrite=1
+   }
+
+   devices {
+        scan = "/dev"
+        filter = ["a/loop/", "r/.*/"]
+   }
+
+
+   The important this to note is the devices section which makes sure that
+   only the loopback devices are considered for LVM2 operations.
+
+4) When you want to use this test setup just set the environment
+   variable LVM_SYSTEM_DIR to point to your config directory
+   (/etc/lvm_loops in my case).
+
+5) It's a good idea to do a vgscan to initialise the filters:
+
+   export LVM_SYSTEM_DIR=/etc/lvm_loops
+   ./lvm vgscan
+
+   where ./lvm is the new build of LVM2 that I'm trying out.
+
+7) Test away.  Make sure that you are explicit about which lvm
+   executable you want to execute (eg, ./lvm if you are in
+   LVM2/tools).
+
+   
+
+
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