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Headless server with an mdraid array won't boot

I'm in a bit of a pickle. I have a headless server (Acer EasyStore) running Ubuntu 12.04.1, which, after an update, now refuses to boot. It has four disks, one of which holds the OS in a partition and ...
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Linux boot: md raid FS not ready (sometimes)

Using Ubuntu 11.04 (latest patched) I have 5 RAID-1 file systems that are automatically assembled during the boot process (Note: none of the system FS /, /usr... are raid, only user FSes). Once in ...
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Linux software RAID that uses system RAM for write cache

Is it possible to configure software RAID 5 on linux that uses system RAM for write cache? I have a file server with 8GB of RAM ... would be really cool if I could dedicate 4GB to write cache. If ...