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FSCTL_QUERY_SPARING_INFO IOCTL (winioctl.h)

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Retrieves the defect management properties of the volume. Used for UDF file systems.

To perform this operation, call the DeviceIoControl function with the following parameters.

BOOL DeviceIoControl(
  (HANDLE) hDevice,             // handle to device
  FSCTL_QUERY_SPARING_INFO,     // dwIoControlCode
  NULL,                         // input buffer
  0,                            // size of input buffer
  (LPVOID) lpOutBuffer,         // output buffer
  (DWORD) nOutBufferSize,       // size of output buffer
  (LPDWORD) lpBytesReturned,    // number of bytes returned
  (LPOVERLAPPED) lpOverlapped   // OVERLAPPED structure
);

Remarks

One scenario this control code can be used for is by an application that reports volume statistics to the user and warns if the volume is running out of free storage space.

In Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012, this code is supported by the following technologies.

Technology Supported
Server Message Block (SMB) 3.0 protocol Yes
SMB 3.0 Transparent Failover (TFO) Yes
SMB 3.0 with Scale-out File Shares (SO) Yes
Cluster Shared Volume File System (CsvFS) No
Resilient File System (ReFS) Yes

Requirements

Requirement Value
Minimum supported client Windows Vista [desktop apps only]
Minimum supported server Windows Server 2008 [desktop apps only]
Header winioctl.h (include Windows.h)

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