Re: Bind mounts with fedora 9

[Kostas Georgiou <k georgiou imperial ac uk>]

On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 04:51:15PM +0200, Sergio Pascual wrote:

> Hello, with fedora < 9, I could make bind mounts adding a line like
> this in /etc/fstab
> /srv/db/mysql           /var/lib/mysql          bind    defaults,bind   0 0
> 
> But this seems not to work in fedora == 9. During boot, "Mounting
> local filesystems" fails and "Mounting other filesystems" fails also
> and only mounts bind directories read-only. After boot, I can mount
> everything with mount -a
> Is this behavior intended?

I think it's selinux getting in the way, if it is the error messages
will be in /var/log/messages since everything happens before auditd
has started so they are easy to miss.
Try with the allow_mount_anyfile boolean enabled for a fix.