ubiquity can't install Ubuntu on Reiser4

[Sokolov Sergey]

I've read a lot of articles about File Systems and realised, that Reiser4 suites me. I decided to install Ubuntu on Reiser4. Also I found some packages, those add support of Reiser4 to GRUB.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Reiser4 - Here I found, that Reiser4 is supported in Ubuntu

What I've done:
1) boot from live-cd
2) in Synaptic I mark for installation:
libaal-dev - as I understood it's for GRUB
libncurses5-dev
libreadline5-dev
uuid-dev
libreiser4-dev - as I understood it's for GRUB
reiser4progs
3) in GParted I made all partitions, exept SWAP in Reiser4
4) start ubiquity installer, disk partitioning. I can't mark my partitions to be Reiser4 (So, that's the problem)

I've read many threads, but nowhere the problem was solved.

I've tried debian-installer on alternate CD, but it has the same problem.

My system now: Ubuntu 9.04 Alpha4 amd64, but I tried all versions from 7.04

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

That wiki page is a plan that has never been implemented. We will not be including reiser4 support in Ubuntu until support for it is available in the mainline Linux kernel; given that the primary author of reiser4 has been imprisoned for murder, it is rather unlikely that this will happen in the near future. I suggest selecting a different filesystem.

[god (humper)]

Last comment is misleading: legal prosecutions has nothing to do with quality of file system.
It is currently maintained by Edward Shishkin (Red Hat employee) and is planned to be included in upstream.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Well, in my book November 2010 is outside of the range of "near future" from February 2009, when I wrote that comment, and so I'm happy to stand by my comment. If it reaches the mainline Linux kernel, we'll re-evaluate whether to support it in our installer, but not before then.