There are pros and cons for binary logs, they get you something (https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1IC9yOXj7j6cdLLxWEBA...), and you may lose something.
If you have such problems, that your machine crashes and loses filesystem data, just redirect it to the syslogd and go on.
Unix philosophy aside, Pottering can't be trusted to provide working software...