I was running a sequential read test using the filemicro_seqread file using the 
following parameters using filebench-1.0.0 on Red Hat Linux - 2.6.18.

FileBench Version 1.0.0
filebench> load filemicro_seqread
 2406: 8.407: FileMicro-SeqRead Version 2.0 personality successfully loaded
 2406: 8.407: Usage: set $dir=<dir>          defaults to /mnt/testfs/
 2406: 8.407:        set $iosize=<size>    defaults to 4096
 2406: 8.407:        set $filesize=<size>  defaults to 3072
 2406: 8.407:        set $nthreads=<value> defaults to 1
 2406: 8.407:        set $cached=<bool>    defaults to 0
 2406: 8.407:  
 2406: 8.407:        run runtime (e.g. run 60)
filebench> run 60




As can be seen from the above parameters, the filesize I create is 3072 (3k). 
When I look in to the /mnt/testfs, I see the following:

# ls -lt bigfileset/00000001/00000001 
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 393 Oct 29  2007 bigfileset/00000001/00000001

I see only 393 bytes!! Why would this be? 

When I increased the filesize to 20k, I see a file only 2620bytes - about 10X 
less. What would I be doing wrong? 

The filemicro_seq used is as follows:
set $dir=/mnt/testfs/
set $nthreads=1
set $iosize=4k
set $filesize=20k
set $cached=0

define fileset 
name=bigfileset,path=$dir,size=$filesize,entries=$nthreads,dirwidth=1024,prealloc=100,cached=$cached

define process name=filereader,instances=1
{
  thread name=filereaderthread,memsize=10m,instances=$nthreads
  {
    flowop read name=append-file,filesetname=bigfileset,iosize=$iosize,fd=1
  }
}



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