I used it for a few months, lost a few files and moved on to ext3 at the time. I think his press notoriety came soon after that.

"Of course Reiser's wife would go missing, have you seen how often things end up missing in his file systems?" used to be funny for a moment.

Yeah most major distros that used it (like OpenSuse) moved away before the murder case.

His wife was reported missing in September 2006. OpenSuse dumped it in October 2006. She wasn’t feared dead yet. He was arrested April 2008.

By the time he was even a suspect, his work had already been dropped because it was not reliable enough.