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If anything it just shows that he wanted to buy another human that he could control and, when it turned out not to be the case, he decided to kill her.
> why a mistake he committed in personal life would make his file system a taboo to touch.
He is no longer here to fix bugs or improve the file system, it is not that it's Taboo to touch per se. The benefits of ReiserFS are no longer clear compared to alternatives, there's a cost to including ReiserFS (which Reiser acknowledges), no other FS is associated with the name of a premeditated murderer.
This is an opinion and not something backed by any known facts.