[ceph-users] Cache Tiering not flushing and evicting due to missing scrub

2018-05-15 Thread Micha Krause
Hi, increasing pg_num for a cache pool gives you a warning, that pools must be scrubed afterwards. Turns out If you ignore this flushing and evicting will not work. You realy should do something like this: for pg in $(ceph pg dump | awk '$1 ~ "^." { print $1 }'); do ceph pg scrub $pg; done

Re: [ceph-users] Cache tiering on Erasure coded pools

2018-01-03 Thread Mario Giammarco
Nobody explains why, I will tell you from direct experience: the cache tier has a block size of several megabytes. So if you ask for one byte that is not in cache some megabytes are read from disk and, if cache is full, some other megabytes are written from cache to the EC pool. Il giorno gio 28 d

Re: [ceph-users] Cache tiering on Erasure coded pools

2017-12-28 Thread Karun Josy
Hello David, Thank you! We setup 2 pools to use EC with RBD. One ecpool and other normal replicated pool. However, would it still be advantageous to add a replicated cache tier in front of an EC one, even though it is not required anymore? I would still assume that replication would be less inten

Re: [ceph-users] Cache tiering on Erasure coded pools

2017-12-27 Thread Nick Fisk
Also carefully read the word of caution section on David's link (which is absent in the jewel version of the docs), a cache tier in front of an ersure coded data pool for RBD is almost always a bad idea. I would say that statement is incorrect if using Bluestore. If using Bluestore, small

Re: [ceph-users] Cache tiering on Erasure coded pools

2017-12-27 Thread Caspar Smit
Also carefully read the word of caution section on David's link (which is absent in the jewel version of the docs), a cache tier in front of an ersure coded data pool for RBD is almost always a bad idea. Caspar Met vriendelijke groet, Caspar Smit Systemengineer SuperNAS Dorsvlegelstraat 13 1445

Re: [ceph-users] Cache tiering on Erasure coded pools

2017-12-26 Thread David Turner
Please use the version of the docs for your installed version of ceph. Now the Jewel in your URL and the Luminous in mine. In Luminous you no longer need a cache tier to use EC with RBDs. http://docs.ceph.com/docs/luminous/rados/operations/cache-tiering/ On Tue, Dec 26, 2017, 4:21 PM Karun Josy

[ceph-users] Cache tiering on Erasure coded pools

2017-12-26 Thread Karun Josy
Hi, We are using Erasure coded pools in a ceph cluster for RBD images. Ceph version is 12.2.2 Luminous. - http://docs.ceph.com/docs/jewel/rados/operations/cache-tiering/ - Here it says we can use a Cache tiering infront of ec pools. To use erasure code with RBD we have a replicated pool

Re: [ceph-users] Cache-tiering work abnormal

2017-06-27 Thread Christian Balzer
Hello, your cache tier is working fine, just as you configured it. On Tue, 27 Jun 2017 16:17:59 +0800 码云 wrote: > Hi all,When rados put file into pool, the pool usage increase fast, althrough > it configured a tier pool. > I check it with ceph df, USED and OBJECTS columns both increased(both c

[ceph-users] Cache-tiering work abnormal

2017-06-27 Thread ????
Hi all,When rados put file into pool, the pool usage increase fast, althrough it configured a tier pool. I check it with ceph df, USED and OBJECTS columns both increased(both cache pool and base pool). But it should't only write into cache tier layer pool? pool configure like below: jewel 10.2.5,

[ceph-users] cache tiering write vs read promotion

2017-05-18 Thread Webert de Souza Lima
Hello, I'm using cache tiering with cephfs on latest ceph jewel release. For my use case, I wanted to make new writes go "directly" to the cache pool , and any use other logic for promoting when reading, like after 2 reads, for example. I see that the following settings are available: hit_set_c

Re: [ceph-users] cache tiering deprecated in RHCS 2.0

2016-10-24 Thread Christian Balzer
Hello, On Mon, 24 Oct 2016 11:49:15 +0200 Dietmar Rieder wrote: > On 10/24/2016 03:10 AM, Christian Balzer wrote: > > [...] > > There are several items here and I very much would welcome a response from > > a Ceph/RH representative. > > > > 1. Is that depreciation only in regards to RHCS, as N

Re: [ceph-users] cache tiering deprecated in RHCS 2.0

2016-10-24 Thread Oliver Dzombic
Hi, if ceph will remote the cache tiering, and not replacing by something similar, it will fall behind other, existing solutions. I dont know what strategy stands behind this decision. But we all cant start advertising and announcing the caching, deviding hot and cold stores to customers all the

Re: [ceph-users] cache tiering deprecated in RHCS 2.0

2016-10-24 Thread Dietmar Rieder
On 10/24/2016 03:10 AM, Christian Balzer wrote: [...] > There are several items here and I very much would welcome a response from > a Ceph/RH representative. > > 1. Is that depreciation only in regards to RHCS, as Nick seems to hope? > Because I very much doubt that, why develop code you just "

Re: [ceph-users] cache tiering deprecated in RHCS 2.0

2016-10-23 Thread Christian Balzer
Hello, On Sat, 22 Oct 2016 16:12:37 +0200 Zoltan Arnold Nagy wrote: > Hi, > > The 2.0 release notes for Red Hat Ceph Storage deprecate cache tiering. > > What does this mean for Jewel and especially going forward? > Lets look at that statement in the release notes: --- The RADOS-level cache

Re: [ceph-users] cache tiering deprecated in RHCS 2.0

2016-10-23 Thread Nick Fisk
From: Robert Sanders [mailto:rlsand...@gmail.com] Sent: 23 October 2016 16:32 To: n...@fisk.me.uk Cc: ceph-users Subject: Re: [ceph-users] cache tiering deprecated in RHCS 2.0 On Oct 23, 2016, at 4:32 AM, Nick Fisk mailto:n...@fisk.me.uk> > wrote: Unofficial answer but I susp

Re: [ceph-users] cache tiering deprecated in RHCS 2.0

2016-10-23 Thread Robert Sanders
> On Oct 23, 2016, at 4:32 AM, Nick Fisk wrote: > > Unofficial answer but I suspect it is probably correct. > > Before Jewel (and later hammer releases), cache tiering reduced performance > in pretty much all cases. In it’s current state does this still hold true? I’ve been spending a lot

Re: [ceph-users] cache tiering deprecated in RHCS 2.0

2016-10-23 Thread Nick Fisk
> -Original Message- > From: ceph-users [mailto:ceph-users-boun...@lists.ceph.com] On Behalf Of > Zoltan Arnold Nagy > Sent: 22 October 2016 15:13 > To: ceph-users > Subject: [ceph-users] cache tiering deprecated in RHCS 2.0 > > Hi, > > The 2.0 release

[ceph-users] cache tiering deprecated in RHCS 2.0

2016-10-22 Thread Zoltan Arnold Nagy
Hi, The 2.0 release notes for Red Hat Ceph Storage deprecate cache tiering. What does this mean for Jewel and especially going forward? Can someone shed some light why cache tiering is not meeting the original expectations technically? Thanks, Zoltan ___

Re: [ceph-users] Cache Tiering with Same Cache Pool

2016-06-23 Thread Christian Balzer
e tiering about your > > needs, by monitoring the pools (and their storage) you want to cache, > > again with "df detail" (how many writes/reads?), "ceph -w", atop or > > iostat, etc. > > > > Christian > > > > > Best regards, > > >

Re: [ceph-users] Cache Tiering with Same Cache Pool

2016-06-23 Thread Lazuardi Nasution
oring the pools (and their storage) you want to cache, again > with "df detail" (how many writes/reads?), "ceph -w", atop or iostat, etc. > > Christian > > > Best regards, > > > > Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2016 09:34:05 +0900 > > > From: Christian Balz

Re: [ceph-users] Cache Tiering with Same Cache Pool

2016-06-22 Thread Christian Balzer
ian Balzer > > To: ceph-users@lists.ceph.com > > Cc: Lazuardi Nasution > > Subject: Re: [ceph-users] Cache Tiering with Same Cache Pool > > Message-ID: <20160620093405.732f5...@batzmaru.gol.ad.jp> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII > > > > O

Re: [ceph-users] Cache Tiering with Same Cache Pool

2016-06-22 Thread Lazuardi Nasution
Available size? If diffrent, how can I know if such cache pool need more size than other. Best regards, Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2016 09:34:05 +0900 > From: Christian Balzer > To: ceph-users@lists.ceph.com > Cc: Lazuardi Nasution > Subject: Re: [ceph-users] Cache Tiering with Same C

Re: [ceph-users] Cache Tiering with Same Cache Pool

2016-06-19 Thread Christian Balzer
On Mon, 20 Jun 2016 00:14:55 +0700 Lazuardi Nasution wrote: > Hi, > > Is it possible to do cache tiering for some storage pools with the same > cache pool? As mentioned several times on this ML, no. There is a strict 1:1 relationship between base and cache pools. You can of course (if your SSDs

[ceph-users] Cache Tiering with Same Cache Pool

2016-06-19 Thread Lazuardi Nasution
Hi, Is it possible to do cache tiering for some storage pools with the same cache pool? What will happen if cache pool is broken or at least doesn't meet quorum when storage pool is OK? Best regards, ___ ceph-users mailing list ceph-users@lists.ceph.com

Re: [ceph-users] Cache Tiering Investigation and Potential Patch

2015-12-01 Thread Nick Fisk
> -Original Message- > From: ceph-devel-ow...@vger.kernel.org [mailto:ceph-devel- > ow...@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of Mark Nelson > Sent: 01 December 2015 16:58 > To: Nick Fisk ; 'Sage Weil' > Cc: 'ceph-users' ; ceph-de...@vger.kernel.org > Subject: Re: Cache Tiering Investigation an

Re: [ceph-users] Cache Tiering Investigation and Potential Patch

2015-12-01 Thread Mark Nelson
On 12/01/2015 10:30 AM, Nick Fisk wrote: Hi Sage/Mark, I have completed some initial testing of the tiering fix PR you submitted compared to my method I demonstrated at the perf meeting last week. From a high level both have very similar performance when compared to the current broken beha

Re: [ceph-users] Cache Tiering Investigation and Potential Patch

2015-12-01 Thread Nick Fisk
Hi Sage/Mark, I have completed some initial testing of the tiering fix PR you submitted compared to my method I demonstrated at the perf meeting last week. >From a high level both have very similar performance when compared to the >current broken behaviour. So I think until Jewel, either way wo

Re: [ceph-users] Cache Tiering Investigation and Potential Patch

2015-11-25 Thread Nick Fisk
Posting again as it seems attachment was too large Uploaded to DroidDoc, thanks to Stephen for the pointer. http://docdro.id/QMHXDPl From: Nick Fisk [mailto:n...@fisk.me.uk] Sent: 25 November 2015 17:07 To: 'ceph-users' Cc: 'Sage Weil' ; 'Mark Nelson' Subject: Cache Tiering Investigation an

Re: [ceph-users] Cache Tiering Investigation and Potential Patch

2015-11-25 Thread Sage Weil
On Wed, 25 Nov 2015, Nick Fisk wrote: > > > Yes I think that should definitely be an improvement. I can't quite > > > get my head around how it will perform in instances where you miss 1 > > > hitset but all others are a hit. Like this: > > > > > > H H H M H H H H H H H H > > > > > > And recency is

Re: [ceph-users] Cache Tiering Investigation and Potential Patch

2015-11-25 Thread Robert LeBlanc
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Re: [ceph-users] Cache Tiering Investigation and Potential Patch

2015-11-25 Thread Nick Fisk
> -Original Message- > From: ceph-devel-ow...@vger.kernel.org [mailto:ceph-devel- > ow...@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of Sage Weil > Sent: 25 November 2015 19:41 > To: Nick Fisk > Cc: 'ceph-users' ; ceph-de...@vger.kernel.org; > 'Mark Nelson' > Subject: RE: Cache Tiering Investigation and

Re: [ceph-users] Cache Tiering Investigation and Potential Patch

2015-11-25 Thread Sage Weil
On Wed, 25 Nov 2015, Nick Fisk wrote: > Hi Sage > > > -Original Message- > > From: Sage Weil [mailto:s...@newdream.net] > > Sent: 25 November 2015 17:38 > > To: Nick Fisk > > Cc: 'ceph-users' ; ceph-de...@vger.kernel.org; > > 'Mark Nelson' > > Subject: Re: Cache Tiering Investigation and

Re: [ceph-users] Cache Tiering Investigation and Potential Patch

2015-11-25 Thread Nick Fisk
Hi Sage > -Original Message- > From: Sage Weil [mailto:s...@newdream.net] > Sent: 25 November 2015 17:38 > To: Nick Fisk > Cc: 'ceph-users' ; ceph-de...@vger.kernel.org; > 'Mark Nelson' > Subject: Re: Cache Tiering Investigation and Potential Patch > > On Wed, 25 Nov 2015, Nick Fisk wro

Re: [ceph-users] Cache Tiering Investigation and Potential Patch

2015-11-25 Thread Sage Weil
On Wed, 25 Nov 2015, Nick Fisk wrote: > Presentation from the performance meeting. > > I seem to be unable to post to Ceph-devel, so can someone please repost > there if useful. Copying ceph-devel. The problem is just that your email is HTML-formatted. If you send it in plaintext vger won't rej

Re: [ceph-users] Cache Tiering Question

2015-10-20 Thread Nick Fisk
: 16 October 2015 00:50 > To: ceph-users@lists.ceph.com > Subject: Re: [ceph-users] Cache Tiering Question > > > Hello, > > Having run into this myself two days ago (setting relative sizing values > doesn't > flush things when expected) I'd say that the docu

Re: [ceph-users] Cache Tiering Question

2015-10-16 Thread Sage Weil
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Re: [ceph-users] Cache Tiering Question

2015-10-16 Thread Robert LeBlanc
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Re: [ceph-users] Cache Tiering Question

2015-10-16 Thread Sage Weil
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Re: [ceph-users] Cache Tiering Question

2015-10-16 Thread Robert LeBlanc
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Re: [ceph-users] Cache Tiering Question

2015-10-16 Thread Robert LeBlanc
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Re: [ceph-users] Cache Tiering Question

2015-10-15 Thread Christian Balzer
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Re: [ceph-users] Cache Tiering Question

2015-10-15 Thread Robert LeBlanc
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Re: [ceph-users] Cache Tiering Question

2015-10-15 Thread JC Lopez
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Re: [ceph-users] Cache Tiering Question

2015-10-15 Thread Robert LeBlanc
Robert LeBlanc >> PGP Fingerprint 79A2 9CA4 6CC4 45DD A904 C70E E654 3BB2 FA62 B9F1 >> >> >> On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 3:32 PM, Nick Fisk wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>> -----Original Message- >>>> From: ceph-users [mailt

Re: [ceph-users] Cache Tiering Question

2015-10-15 Thread LOPEZ Jean-Charles
M, Nick Fisk wrote: >> >> >> >> >>> -Original Message- >>> From: ceph-users [mailto:ceph-users-boun...@lists.ceph.com] On Behalf Of >>> Robert LeBlanc >>> Sent: 15 October 2015 22:06 >>> To: ceph-users@lists.ceph.com &

Re: [ceph-users] Cache Tiering Question

2015-10-15 Thread Robert LeBlanc
From: ceph-users [mailto:ceph-users-boun...@lists.ceph.com] On Behalf Of >> Robert LeBlanc >> Sent: 15 October 2015 22:06 >> To: ceph-users@lists.ceph.com >> Subject: [ceph-users] Cache Tiering Question >> >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE

Re: [ceph-users] Cache Tiering Question

2015-10-15 Thread Nick Fisk
> -Original Message- > From: ceph-users [mailto:ceph-users-boun...@lists.ceph.com] On Behalf Of > Robert LeBlanc > Sent: 15 October 2015 22:06 > To: ceph-users@lists.ceph.com > Subject: [ceph-users] Cache Tiering Question > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-

Re: [ceph-users] Cache Tiering Question

2015-10-15 Thread Max Yehorov
I was not able to trigger eviction using percentage settings. I run the hot pool into "cluster is full" and the eviction did not start. As an option a threshold on # of objects did trigger an eviction. Unfortunately it stalled all the writes to the hot pool until the eviction was complete. On Th

[ceph-users] Cache Tiering Question

2015-10-15 Thread Robert LeBlanc
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 ceph df (ceph version 0.94.3-252-g629b631 (629b631488f044150422371ac77dfc005f3de1bc)) is showing some odd results: root@nodez:~# ceph df GLOBAL: SIZE AVAIL RAW USED %RAW USED 24518G 21670G1602G 6.53 POOLS:

[ceph-users] Cache tiering writeback mode, object in cold and hot pool ?

2015-01-31 Thread Florent MONTHEL
Hi list I have a question to estimate volumetry available on each node With a cache tiering pool in write back mode, object in hot pool is it remove from cold pool ? Or object is in hot and cold pool (cache) ? Thanks Florent Monthel ___ ceph-use

[ceph-users] Cache Tiering vs. OSD Journal

2015-01-07 Thread deeepdish
Hello. Quick question RE: cache tiering vs. OSD journals. As I understand it, SSD acceleration is possible at the pool or OSD level. When considering cache tiering, should I still put OSD journals on SSDs or should they be disabled altogether. Can a single SSD pool function as a cac

Re: [ceph-users] Cache tiering and cephfs

2014-11-18 Thread Gregory Farnum
I believe the reason we don't allow you to do this right now is that there was not a good way of coordinating the transition (so that everybody starts routing traffic through the cache pool at the same time), which could lead to data inconsistencies. Looks like the OSDs handle this appropriately no

Re: [ceph-users] Cache tiering and cephfs

2014-11-17 Thread Scott Laird
Hmm. I'd rather not recreate by cephfs filesystem from scratch if I don't have do. Has anyone managed to add a cache tier to a running cephfs filesystem? On Sun Nov 16 2014 at 1:39:47 PM Erik Logtenberg wrote: > I know that it is possible to run CephFS with a cache tier on the data > pool in G

Re: [ceph-users] Cache tiering and cephfs

2014-11-16 Thread Erik Logtenberg
I know that it is possible to run CephFS with a cache tier on the data pool in Giant, because that's what I do. However when I configured it, I was on the previous release. When I upgraded to Giant, everything just kept working. By the way when I set it up, I used the following commmands: ceph os

[ceph-users] Cache tiering and cephfs

2014-11-16 Thread Scott Laird
Is it possible to add a cache tier to cephfs's data pool in giant? I'm getting a error: $ ceph osd tier set-overlay data data-cache Error EBUSY: pool 'data' is in use by CephFS via its tier >From what I can see in the code, that comes from OSDMonitor::_check_remove_tier; I don't understand why

[ceph-users] Cache tiering and CRUSH map

2014-08-18 Thread Michael Kolomiets
Hi I am trying to use cache tiering and read the topic about mapping OSD with pools (http://ceph.com/docs/master/rados/operations/crush-map/#placing-different-pools-on-different-osds). I can't realize why OSDs were splitted on spinner and SSD type on root level of CRUSH map? Is it possible to to

Re: [ceph-users] Cache tiering and target_max_bytes

2014-08-17 Thread Paweł Sadowski
On 08/14/2014 10:30 PM, Sage Weil wrote: > On Thu, 14 Aug 2014, Pawe? Sadowski wrote: >> W dniu 14.08.2014 17:20, Sage Weil pisze: >>> On Thu, 14 Aug 2014, Pawe? Sadowski wrote: Hello, I've a cluster of 35 OSD (30 HDD, 5 SSD) with cache tiering configured. During tests it looks

Re: [ceph-users] Cache tiering and target_max_bytes

2014-08-14 Thread Sage Weil
On Thu, 14 Aug 2014, Pawe? Sadowski wrote: > W dniu 14.08.2014 17:20, Sage Weil pisze: > > On Thu, 14 Aug 2014, Pawe? Sadowski wrote: > >> Hello, > >> > >> I've a cluster of 35 OSD (30 HDD, 5 SSD) with cache tiering configured. > >> During tests it looks like ceph is not respecting target_max_bytes

Re: [ceph-users] Cache tiering and target_max_bytes

2014-08-14 Thread Paweł Sadowski
W dniu 14.08.2014 17:20, Sage Weil pisze: > On Thu, 14 Aug 2014, Pawe? Sadowski wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I've a cluster of 35 OSD (30 HDD, 5 SSD) with cache tiering configured. >> During tests it looks like ceph is not respecting target_max_bytes >> settings. Steps to reproduce: >> - configure cache

Re: [ceph-users] Cache tiering and target_max_bytes

2014-08-14 Thread Sage Weil
On Thu, 14 Aug 2014, Pawe? Sadowski wrote: > Hello, > > I've a cluster of 35 OSD (30 HDD, 5 SSD) with cache tiering configured. > During tests it looks like ceph is not respecting target_max_bytes > settings. Steps to reproduce: > - configure cache tiering > - set target_max_bytes to 32G (on hot

[ceph-users] Cache tiering and target_max_bytes

2014-08-14 Thread Paweł Sadowski
Hello, I've a cluster of 35 OSD (30 HDD, 5 SSD) with cache tiering configured. During tests it looks like ceph is not respecting target_max_bytes settings. Steps to reproduce: - configure cache tiering - set target_max_bytes to 32G (on hot pool) - write more than 32G of data - nothing happens

Re: [ceph-users] Cache tiering

2014-05-07 Thread Mark Nelson
On 05/07/2014 10:38 AM, Gregory Farnum wrote: On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 8:13 AM, Dan van der Ster wrote: Hi, Gregory Farnum wrote: 3) The cost of a cache miss is pretty high, so they should only be used when the active set fits within the cache and doesn't change too frequently. Can you rough

Re: [ceph-users] Cache tiering

2014-05-07 Thread Gregory Farnum
On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 8:13 AM, Dan van der Ster wrote: > Hi, > > > Gregory Farnum wrote: > > 3) The cost of a cache miss is pretty high, so they should only be > used when the active set fits within the cache and doesn't change too > frequently. > > > Can you roughly quantify how long a cache mis

Re: [ceph-users] Cache tiering

2014-05-07 Thread Sage Weil
On Wed, 7 May 2014, Gandalf Corvotempesta wrote: > Very simple question: what happen if server bound to the cache pool goes down? > For example, a read-only cache could be archived by using a single > server with no redudancy. > Is ceph smart enough to detect that cache is unavailable and > transpa

Re: [ceph-users] Cache tiering

2014-05-07 Thread Dan van der Ster
Hi, Gregory Farnum wrote: 3) The cost of a cache miss is pretty high, so they should only be used when the active set fits within the cache and doesn't change too frequently. Can you roughly quantify how long a cache miss would take? Naively I'd assume it would turn one read into a read from

Re: [ceph-users] Cache tiering

2014-05-07 Thread Gregory Farnum
On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 5:05 AM, Gandalf Corvotempesta wrote: > Very simple question: what happen if server bound to the cache pool goes down? > For example, a read-only cache could be archived by using a single > server with no redudancy. > Is ceph smart enough to detect that cache is unavailable

Re: [ceph-users] Cache tiering

2014-05-07 Thread Wido den Hollander
On 05/07/2014 02:05 PM, Gandalf Corvotempesta wrote: Very simple question: what happen if server bound to the cache pool goes down? For example, a read-only cache could be archived by using a single server with no redudancy. Is ceph smart enough to detect that cache is unavailable and transparent

[ceph-users] Cache tiering

2014-05-07 Thread Gandalf Corvotempesta
Very simple question: what happen if server bound to the cache pool goes down? For example, a read-only cache could be archived by using a single server with no redudancy. Is ceph smart enough to detect that cache is unavailable and transparently redirect all request to the main pool as usual ? Th