comments from a late adopter

[Alexandre Oliva]

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.

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