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Hans Thomas Reiser (born December 19, 1963) is an American computer programmer, entrepreneur, and convicted murderer. He is the creator and primary developer of the ReiserFS computer file system, which is contained within the Linux kernel, as well as its attempted successor, Reiser4. In 2004 he founded Namesys, a corporation meant to coordinate the development of both file systems. In April 2008, Reiser was convicted of the first degree murder of his wife, Nina Reiser, who disappeared in September 2006. He subsequently pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of second degree murder, as part of a settlement agreement that included disclosing the location of Nina Reiser's body, found buried in a shallow grave near the home that she shared with Mr. Reiser.

Novell / SuSE move away from ReiserFS to ext3
Jeff Mahoney of SuSE wrote a post on Sep 14 2006 proposing to move from ReiserFS to ext3 for the default installation file system.[6] Some reasons he mentioned were scalability, "performance problems with extended attributes and ACLs", "a small and shrinking development community", and that "Reiser4 is not an incremental update and requires a reformat, which is unreasonable for most people."[6] On October 4 he wrote a response comment on a blog in order to clear up some issues.[14] He wrote that his proposal for the switch was unrelated to Reiser's "legal troubles" (i.e., Hans Reiser's prosecution for murdering his wife)[15] Mahoney wrote he "was concerned that people would make a connection where none existed" and that "the timing is entirely coincidental and the motivation is unrelated."[14]
On Oct 12, 2006, Novell similarly announced that SuSE Linux Enterprise would switch from ReiserFS to ext3.