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From: Matthias Andree <mandree@FreeBSD.org>
Subject: User-space API to inquire block alignment requirements for open file
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Greetings,

given an open file descriptor, do we have a system interface to inquire
about the block size of the underlying devices? In the past, we used to
deal with 512-byte blocks, but how about drives using 4096-byte blocks?

Thanks,
Matthias