> "I get shot going to work every day. But I bought a bullet proof vest, so life is okay."
You get corruption if the machine shuts down incorrectly. In binary or text files. In that case journald/syslogd act like a black box. Syslogd will give you whatever garbage it has in those text files, journald will give you the surviving records and will tell you which ones are unreadable.
If you want to not get shot, shut down your machine properly. If you cannot shut down your machine properly because it crashed then you have data garbage if you want it or not. Drives work that way.
You get corruption if the machine shuts down incorrectly. In binary or text files. In that case journald/syslogd act like a black box. Syslogd will give you whatever garbage it has in those text files, journald will give you the surviving records and will tell you which ones are unreadable.
If you want to not get shot, shut down your machine properly. If you cannot shut down your machine properly because it crashed then you have data garbage if you want it or not. Drives work that way.
I'm not sure what you are arguing for.
Journald does not write broken records itself.