On Fri, 17 Oct 2014 10:11:54 +1300, Peter Reutemann wrote:
'Only three days after the public learned that the ChromeOS project was going to disable ext2fs support for external drives (causing Linux users to voice many protests on websites like Slashdot and the issue tracker), the ChromeOS team now plans to support it again. To quote Ben Goodger's comment: "Thanks for all of your feedback on this bug. We've heard you loud and clear. We plan to re-enable ext2/3/4 support in Files.app immediately. It will come back, just like it was before, and we're working to get it into the next stable channel release."'
-- source: http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/14/10/16/1228232
Cheers, Peter
Given that this is all open source, it seemed a bit of dumb move to remove support in the first plan. Or perhaps it was part of a marketing plan to see how many users would raise a fuss.