Yes this is fine. This is my personal expericence and might help you in the future as many have not thought about doing this.
I had a customer who "lost all his data" or so he thought. As a engineer you always tell you customer things and it seems that they just don't hear what you are saying until you politely tell them "nah nah da boo boo, I told you so" I remember specifically telling him that you need to ask before you update your OS version. So he decieded not to do it anyway, but only do it on half. So he had a wonderful mix between OS X 10.6.7 and 10.6.8 which is when on the Apple wolrd extended attributes became different. Basically what happened was the MDC couldn't understand the extended attribute, thus not allowing the SAN to mount. So after fighting the entire day with this, I simply grabbed a Linux machine installed Stornext made a temp license and was able to mount the X-SAN volume via the Linux MDC. We copied all the data off and then back on again. Now he keeps to upgrading to me.
The reason for this story is to tell you that Linux doesn't care about exteded attributes.