From my experiences with Fedora 20, journal corruptions happen in seemingly random cases. Not on any system crashes either, but just clean reboots. As well as o

From my experiences with Fedora 20, journal corruptions happen in seemingly random cases. Not on any system crashes either, but just clean reboots. As well as other general systemd issues occasionally, including message bus queue freezes. The plaintext medium is more reliable, largely because recovery can be performed with any generic tools that operate on text streams. Third-party journal readers, on the other hand, are discouraged.