Fix Permission Denied when access mounted volume inside container

I'm using Fedora 23 and also usually use docker to run a Fedora container so that I can have a ready-to-use environment quickly to run something, for example verifying a RPM by installing it simply. Volume is a much useful for sharing data between host and container, but without some magic, mounted volume inside container is not accessible, that is Permission Denied even if just ls.

This is related to the SELinux actually. I'm not a SELinux expert. I can't give any deeper explanation why this happens. All what I knew and learned is from this great article Using Volumes with Docker can Cause Problems with SELinux. The solution is to add suffix either z or Z. For example,

docker run --rm -i -t -v /path/to/host/dir:/path/to/container/dir:Z fedora:24 /bin/bash

Volume Labels actually already describes the functionality of Z. But, it mentions nothing that is related to this issue and SELinux. I suspect, in Docker's documentation, Z is described in general for kinds of Linux distributions including those that don't use SELinux at all. Anyway, hopefully, this is useful for you to solve your problem. Happy hacking! :)