One is what the iSeries team refers to as direct and it is like pSeries Linux I/O. The I/O device is assigned specifically to the Linux partition and is fully managed by the Linux OS. The lists of devices are linked from the Linux on iSeries web pages at http://www.ibm.com/servers/eserver/iseries/linux/support.html.
The gulag system according to Russian statistics caused 1,053,829 deaths [1] or maybe 1.6 million. The Nazi death camps alone killed 3.2 million people[2] (in a period of 4-5 years 1941-1945), not to mention the endless number of labour and POW camps where millions perished as well.
The Gulag (Russian: ÐÐ£ÐÐÐ, IPA: ( listen); acronym of ÐÐ»Ð°Ð²Ð½Ð¾Ðµ Ð£Ð¿ÑÐ°Ð²Ð»ÐµÐ½Ð¸Ðµ ÐÐ°Ð³ÐµÑÐµÐ¹, Glavnoye Upravleniye Lagerej, Main Camps' Administration or Chief Administration of [Corrective Labor] Camps) was the government agency in charge the Soviet forced labor camp system which reached its peak during Joseph Stalin's rule from the 1930s to the 1950s.