Comment by dale_glass

I don't think Reiser's name had anything to do with the removal. If I recall the situation was more or less as follows:

Reiserfs3 was out there, and while it had plenty fans (good performance and efficient disk usage), it had a fair amount of corruption issues. Reiserfs4 was about to come out. Reiser insisted that Reiserfs3 was done and an obsolete relic, and reiserfs4 was the new hot thing.

Reiser ran a consulting company of some kind. IMO this may have put a bit of a damper on contributions.

He also had a contentious personality, with quite a lot of people disliking him, and him having trouble convincing people to merge reiserfs4.

Right about that time the whole murder mess happened. So reiserfs3 was apparently abandoned, reiserfs4 was uncertain if it was going to get merged. Namesys, Reiser's company of course fell apart and the existing employees had to find something else to do.

So that was probably about the worst timing possible. Reiserfs4 didn't get merged, Reiser was dealing with the trial/prison, and other filesystems started showing up as well.