diff --git a/pageserver/src/virtual_file.rs b/pageserver/src/virtual_file.rs
index f80aec55fc..ba100229ea 100644
--- a/pageserver/src/virtual_file.rs
+++ b/pageserver/src/virtual_file.rs
@@ -52,6 +52,7 @@ pub(crate) mod owned_buffers_io {
     //! but for the time being we're proving out the primitives in the neon.git repo
     //! for faster iteration.
 
+    pub(crate) mod io_buf_aligned;
     pub(crate) mod io_buf_ext;
     pub(crate) mod slice;
     pub(crate) mod write;
diff --git a/pageserver/src/virtual_file/owned_buffers_io/io_buf_aligned.rs b/pageserver/src/virtual_file/owned_buffers_io/io_buf_aligned.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..eedb96a4b6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pageserver/src/virtual_file/owned_buffers_io/io_buf_aligned.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+use tokio_epoll_uring::IoBufMut;
+
+use crate::virtual_file::dio::IoBufferMut;
+
+pub(crate) trait IoBufAlignedMut: IoBufMut {}
+
+impl IoBufAlignedMut for IoBufferMut {}