According to this link, https://mariadb.atlassian.net/browse/MDEV-4662 Jesper is correct and I am wrong: when InnoDB warns about not enough space in the logs, it’s overwritten its last checkpoint. Thanks to Jeremy Cole for finding out the truth.
Comment: Sphinx search performance optimization: attribute-based filters
… website where we have about 1200 tables each with hundreds of thousands of records, for we use sphinx based on attributes, but…

