É basicamente o /dev/VGname/LVname e /dev/mapper/ , que está sendo criado quando você cria a estrutura e o LVM. Ele chamou o nó do dispositivo, pois está sob o nó /dev .
Então a questão é: por que o nó /dev está lá? A resposta simples é que se destina a ser usado como um conveniente motivo para você especificar o dispositivo no arquivo fstab e afins.
O sistema udev é responsável pela criação desses nós, e aqui estão alguns pontos de porque você quer criá-los.
The primary role of the udev device manager is to provide a dynamic way of setting up nodes in the /dev directory. The creation of these nodes is directed by the application of udev rules in userspace. These rules are processed on udev events sent from the kernel directly as a result of adding, removing or changing particular devices. This provides a convenient and central mechanism for hotplugging support.
Besides creating the actual nodes, the udev device manager is able to create symbolic links which the user can name. This provides users the freedom to choose their own customized naming and directory structure in the/dev directory, if needed. Each udev event contains basic information about the device being processed, such as its name, the subsystem it belongs to, the device's type, its major and minor number used, and the type of the event. Given that, and having the possibility of accessing all the information found in the /sys directory that is also accessible within udev rules, the users are able to utilize simple filters based on this information and run the rules conditionally based on this information. The udev device manager also provides a centralized way of setting up the nodes' permissions. A user can easily add a customized set of rules to define the permissions for any device specified by any bit of information that is available while processing the event. It is also possible to add program hooks in udev rules directly.
The udev device manager can call these programs to provide further processing that is needed to handle the event. Also, the program can export environment variables as a result of this processing. Any results given can be used further in the rules as a supplementary source of information. Any software using the udev library is able to receive and process udev events with all the information that is available, so the processing is not bound to the udev daemon only.
In Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
and its clones, the Device Mapper provides direct support for udev integration. This synchronizes the Device Mapper with all udev processing related to Device Mapper devices, including LVM devices. The synchronization is needed since the rule application in the udev daemon is a form of parallel processing with the program that is the source of the device's changes (such as dmsetup and LVM). Without this support, it was a common problem for a user to try to remove a device that was still open and processed by udev rules as a result of a previous change event; this was particularly common when there was a very short time between changes for that device.