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Hello,

i am setting up gentoo a Raspberry (B) following the gentoo wiki [1],
first i prepare the SD-Card. The wiki links to the instructions over at
embedded linux wiki [2].

I wonder about the disk layout.

Q1: Do i need a swap partition, and if yes is 512m ok?

The gentoo wiki creates one, the elinux wiki not.

Q2: Also the Raspberry is likely to be powered down without warning. To
my belief jounarled filesystems can handle this. I plan to use JFS since
it works well on my desktop as well. Is there something I could have in
mind?

Q3: The gentoo wiki briefly mentions to use squashfs for /usr/portage.
What will be the benefits of this?

[1] http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Raspberry_Pi
[2] http://elinux.org/RPi_Advanced_Setup

  frukto