Will my snow leopard time machine backups work with lion?

Or do I have to reset the drive in order for them to be compatible?  I want to avoid this, because I have another mac that I wont be upgrading from snow leopard for now.  They both share the same drive for backups.

MacManolo wrote:
Or do I have to reset the drive in order for them to be compatible? 
after upgrading to Lion, time machine will just continue normally.
i have three Macs. two are on Lion while the 3rd is on SL. all are backing up to the same drive (time capsule) without issues.

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