Comment # 42 on bug 1063638 from Aaron Williams

With the init 0 command my laptop did eventually shut down, however, now it
only boots into single user mode due to this abomination. Fuck BTRFS. There was
NO reason for it to go into its check mode to begin with the previous time when
it hung with BTRFS because it had been shut down cleanly. No rebalancing was
needed. Rebalancing shouldn't hang the whole fucking system either, nor should
it prevent a clean shutdown. Now, thanks to this abomination I can't boot back
up. All I ask is a filesystem that can reliably store and retrieve files that
can quickly be checked after crashes. BTRFS fits none of these criteria.