See: "http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2003-02-05-011-26-NW-HE-SV"
"IBM today announced the delivery of the first industry standard interface for the IBM Enterprise Storage Server (codenamed 'Shark') based on 'Bluefin,' a specification designed to help customers more easily manage storage systems in a multi vendor storage network. "IBM is also expanding storage support for mainframe customers running the open Linux platform, one of the fastest growing customer segments... "As the use of Linux across customer's e-business infrastructure expands, storage needs will grow, especially in mainframe environments. IBM's ESS now supports IBM eServer zSeries customers running the Linux operating system with new FICON attachment for increased throughput, FlashCopy support for copying data and Peer to Peer Remote Copy support for disaster recovery..."