Cache Tiering
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-.. warning:: Cache tiering has been deprecated in the Reef release as it
- has lacked a maintainer for a very long time. This does not mean
- it will be certainly removed, but we may choose to remove it
- without much further notice.
+.. warning:: Cache tiering has been deprecated in the Reef release. Cache
+ tiering has lacked a maintainer for a long time. This does not mean that
+ it will certainly be removed, but it might be removed without much
+ notice.
+
+ The upstream Ceph community strongly advises against deploying new cache
+ tiers.
A cache tier provides Ceph Clients with better I/O performance for a subset of
the data stored in a backing storage tier. Cache tiering involves creating a