bind-chroot not duplicating my forward and reverse tables

[ToddAndMargo]

Hi All,

Fedora 34
bind-chroot-9.16.16-1.fc34.x86_64

I am trying to clean up my bind-chroot forward and reverse files.

The goal is to have bind-chroot do its thing by duplicating
these two files over into
     /var/named/chroot/var/named/slaves/
with the identical inodes like it does with named.root and named.root.key:

# stat /etc/named.root.key /var/named/chroot/etc/named.root.key
     ...
     File: /etc/named.root.key
     Inode: 60033354
     ...
     File: /var/named/chroot/etc/named.root.key
     ...
     Inode: 60033354

In my /etc/named.conf, I have

zone "abc.local" {
        type master;
             # file "/var/named/chroot/var/named/slaves/abc.hosts";
        file "slaves/abc.hosts";
             allow-update { key DHCP_UPDATER; };
     };

zone "255.168.192.in-addr.arpa" {
        type master;
             # file "/var/named/chroot/var/named/slaves/abc.hosts.rev";
        file "slaves/abc.hosts.rev";
             allow-update { key DHCP_UPDATER; };
     };

After I stopped
     # systemctl start named-chroot
I copied and moved the following:

Before:
     # find /var/named/ -iname abc.hosts*
     /var/named/chroot/var/named/slaves/abc.hosts.000
     /var/named/chroot/var/named/slaves/abc.hosts.rev.000

# cp /var/named/chroot/var/named/slaves/abc.hosts 
/var/named/chroot/var/named/slaves/abc.hosts.000
     # mv /var/named/chroot/var/named/slaves/abc.hosts .
     # cp /var/named/chroot/var/named/slaves/abc.hosts.rev 
/var/named/chroot/var/named/slaves/abc.hosts.rev.000
     # mv /var/named/chroot/var/named/slaves/abc.hosts.rev .
     # find /var/named/ -iname abc.hosts*

After:
     # find /var/named/ -iname abc.hosts*
     /var/named/slaves/abc.hosts.rev
     /var/named/slaves/abc.hosts
     /var/named/chroot/var/named/slaves/abc.hosts.000
     /var/named/chroot/var/named/slaves/abc.hosts.rev.000

But when I restarted named-chroot, my great plans got dashed:

# systemctl start named-chroot
     ...
     Jun 24 20:35:45 rn6.abc.local bash[83464]: zone abc.local/IN: 
loading from master file /slaves/abc.hosts faile>
     Jun 24 20:35:45 rn6.abc.local bash[83464]: zone abc.local/IN: not 
loaded due to errors.
     Jun 24 20:35:45 rn6.abc.local bash[83464]: _default/abc.local/IN: 
file not found
     Jun 24 20:35:45 rn6.abc.local bash[83464]: zone 
255.168.192.in-addr.arpa/IN: loading from master file /slaves/abc.host>
     Jun 24 20:35:45 rn6.abc.local bash[83464]: zone 
255.168.192.in-addr.arpa/IN: not loaded due to errors.
     Jun 24 20:35:45 rn6.abc.local bash[83464]: 
_default/255.168.192.in-addr.arpa/IN: file not found
     Jun 24 20:35:45 rn6.abc.local bash[83464]: zone 
0.0.127.in-addr.arpa/IN: loaded serial 1997022700

named-chroot can't find abc.hosts or abc.hosts.rev in
    /var/named/chroot/var/named/slaves

And in case they got copied to somewhere else I did another find:
     # find /var/named/ -iname abc.hosts*
     /var/named/slaves/abc.hosts.rev
     /var/named/slaves/abc.hosts
     /var/named/chroot/var/named/slaves/abc.hosts.000
     /var/named/chroot/var/named/slaves/abc.hosts.rev.000

No change.

What am I missing?

Many thanks,
-T