Re: Bind mounts with fedora 9

[Paul Howarth <paul city-fan org>]

Kostas Georgiou wrote:
> 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.

Or:
# umount /var/lib/mysql
# chcon -t mnt_t /var/lib/mysql
# service netfs start

(the last command does the mount whilst confined by selinux, whilst the 
"mount -a" run directly is not so confined).

Paul.