Can I safely delete?

[jools72]

Greetings!

Ok so with reference to my previous post, I had an issue with a drive on my pool. Turns out it wasn't the drive at fault. It was a dual failure of both the sata port AND the cable. Go figure?
However, my data is safe. I know I'm going to get "where's your redundancy?" and to be honest, at the moment having backups on other machines means the only thing I'll lose is time rebuilding the pool and it'll also provide experience to me being a ZFS newbie.
That said, I was able by some research and sheer luck preserve the data on the pool and everything is still running happily and is even happily now serving as a DNS sinkhole with pi-hole running on a ubuntu server VM. So until I am able to purchase some new hardware, it's running as I intended from the start, to be a whole home file server and media player with pi hole sucking up as many ads as possible.
So, my question for you all. I currently have an unhealthy pool due to aforementioned issues. Truenas has noted several files with permanent errors. Zpool scrub/clear cannot fix them but no new ones have popped up since I fixed the problem.

Most of them appear to be .log files. Would they be safe to delete and how?
There is an iocage error too. Would that be nigh on impossible to fix?

Either way, this server was a project to dip my toes in to see if this would work for me and aside from the port/cable issue it has done exactly what I want. I plan on building a newer machine in the near future and I will be planning redundancy into it.

Any insight would be appreciated.

 

[Jailer]

Those log files are likely corrupt due to the fact that they were being written to when the drive/sata port failed. They should be safe to delete.

The bigger issue here is the hardware you are running on. It's already had a major failure and is quite old. Plus the fact that you are running only 8GB of RAM with a Plex jail and a VM running is going to starve the system of RAM. This is not going to end well for you. Your disaster recovery plan better be a good one.......

 

[jools72]

Hi Jailer,
ok, that's fine. This will not be the final iteration of my server and will undergo a rebuild before too long. It's running fairly decent right now and I am happy with it apart from the niggle of the pool being unhealthy. I can play movies when I want, access my files at the same time and the pi hole runs perfect. I know the hardware is far from ideal (probably about as far from ideal as it gets). However when I do start the rebuild I'm going to get a couple more 4TB drive to move the data to a new pool (without errors) and utilise the existing ones for the backup.

I've been looking at servers on Ebay and may pick up a reasonably specced one. We're not power users per se so I don't see us hammering the server much.