comments from a late adopter

[Gene Smith]

Alexandre Oliva wrote, On 04/11/2004 08:45 PM:
> On Apr 11, 2004, Gene Smith <gds at chartertn.net> wrote:
> 
> 
>>What does labeling a fs from another drive do when that fs is run with
>>a non-selinux OS, e.g., rh 7.2?
> 
> 
> Nothing, I suppose.  It just adds xattrs to the filesystem.  The older
> kernel won't keep them consistent, so if you remove a file that has a
> label a newer fsck will complain that the shared xattr has an
> incorrect use count, but that's about it AFAICT.
> 

Thanks! Been trying to get an answers to this for a couple of day now.