Cannot start MySQL service on linux RHEL when pointing datadir to mounted ecryptfs folder

I moved the data directory for MySQL to an ecryptfs encrypted folder. When I run service mysqld start as root, the service will not start.

[Warning] Can't create test file /mysql/ip-172-31-29-184.lower-test
^G/usr/sbin/mysqld: Can't change dir to '/mysql/' (Errcode: 13 - Permission denied)

When it used to start before my encrypting the folder

ls -lZ /mysql outputs

drwx------. mysql mysql unconfined_u:object_r:mysqld_db_t:s0 mysql

now

ls -lZ /mysql outputs
drwx------. mysql mysql system_u:object_r:ecryptfs_t:s0  mysql

I think the issue is with how I mounted the encrypted directory.

mount -t ecryptfs /mysql /mysql

mount outputs

/mysql on /mysql type ecryptfs
 (rw,ecryptfs_sig=6860c372da7bc418,ecryptfs_cipher=aes,ecryptfs_key_bytes=16,ecryptfs_unlink_sigs)

I am running Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.6 (Santiago), MySQL 5.6.22



Any advice is appreciated. Thank you for your help in advance.