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Bcachefs supports both caching and tiering: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Bcachefs#SSD_caching

A FUSE-based solution is autotier: https://github.com/45Drives/autotier

Looked at Autotier before, but the development looked pretty stale (which is not too bad per se if it is stable). Is there any experience/ recommendations with putting bcachefs also on top of networked block storage such as CEPH ? As CEPH SSD caching seems pretty deprecated by default, at work we looked at a solution to marry our HDD and SSD pool for users that do want to put too much thoughts into tiering by mount points.

Will be interesting to play with.

I used lvm cache to put ZFS on top of local NVMe for write-back caching of iSCSI targets, as ZFS has good built-in read caching.

Worked pretty well in the limited tests I did, but it's not magic. Main reason I didn't pursue is that it felt a bit like a house of cards. Though on the positive side, one could always mount the underlying storage, ie partitions serving the iSCSI targets, as a local pool on another machine.

You could use bcachefs on the OSD drives, but you can also just point the WAL/DB of the OSD to a partition on the ssd and have the data on hdd. You don't have to tier pools to get help with small writes/metadata using ssds.

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