[lxc-users] question about lxc-copy snapshots

[John]

>To: "lxc-users at lists.linuxcontainers.org" <lxc-users at lists.linuxcontainers.org> 
>Sent: Sunday, January 8, 2017 7:36 PM
>Subject: question about lxc-copy snapshots
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>I have a base image that I snapshot for my container.  My question is: can I start the base image while the snapshots are running?  My goal is to update the packages in the base image without disturbing the overlayfs clones.
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Forgot to show the syntax invocation:  lxc-copy -n base -N snapshot1 -M -s -B overlayfs

So this leads to "snapshot1" running with base as the underlying read-only root.  Is it OK to run and to upate package in "base" while "snapshot1" is running?  I read in some guides on this topic that the readonly base image should not be running while clones are running.  Thanks!