Description of problem:
The  find... | cpio... line in the following routine from /lib/systemd/fedora-readonly does not copy the contents of the directory as specified for the dirs directive of rwtab,

	mount_dirs() {
		if [ -e "$1" ]; then
			mkdir -p "$RW_MOUNT$1"
			find "$1" -type d -print0 | cpio -p -0vd "$RW_MOUNT" &>/dev/null
			mount -n --bind "$RW_MOUNT$1" "$1"
		fi
	}


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
AFAICT, this has not worked since it was introduced around RHEL 5.2. There was a comment #fixme find fails in earlier versions of rc.sysinit

How reproducible:
run the following commands and note that there are no data files in the first tree but there  are files in the second. The fix could be a simple as the changing the -type d to -depth in the find but the root issue could be that cpio  does not copy directory contents as described in its man page.

rm -rf cpiotest
rm -rf /tmp/cpiotest
mkdir cpiotest
mkdir cpiotest/one
mkdir cpiotest/two
mkdir cpiotest/two/a
mkdir cpiotest/three
mkdir cpiotest/three/c
mkdir cpiotest/three/d
touch cpiotest/one/data001
touch cpiotest/one/data002
touch cpiotest/two/a/data003
touch cpiotest/three/d/data004
find cpiotest -type d -print0 | cpio -p -0vd /tmp/
tree /tmp/cpiotest/
find cpiotest -depth -print0 | cpio -p -0vd /tmp/
tree /tmp/cpiotest/


Additional info:  Filed under systemd because I thought it might get some attention.