On Mon, Apr 04, 2016 at 11:53:45PM -0400, Sean McLinden wrote: > I am wondering if there are any serious downsides to doing a string search of a running KVM/QEMU swap partition on the host? I understand that mounting the OS (Linux) file systems can be a problem, but what about the swap partition of a live guest? Keep in mind that the contents of the swap partition can change at any time. I don't know the details of the swap on-disk layout, but if you need to read from multiple non-contiguous sectors you have a race condition where you might read part old and part new contents. What are you trying to achieve? Stefan
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