Comment The problem... (Score 4, Insightful) 385
People have reported corrupt log files. The result is all the data is unrecoverable. The complaints have been answered 'as designed'.
When things are right, it works as intended. When things are bad, it can go far off the rails. Considering it is the system log used to debug what is wrong when things are off the rails, a full binary log is a dubious proposition.
There are benefits to binary log, but they could have been done to varying degrees with structured text and/or external binary metadata, rather than a corruptable binary blob.