diff --git a/docs/event-counters.md b/docs/event-counters.md
index be2ace4..fa90d5d 100644
--- a/docs/event-counters.md
+++ b/docs/event-counters.md
@@ -333,6 +333,7 @@ The `scan` event group consists of operations related to scanning incoming data.
  * `scan_eof`: Scan past EOF was attempted.
  * `scan_erase_redundant`: Blocks in the hash table were removed because they were removed from the filesystem by dedupe.
  * `scan_extent`: An extent was scanned (`scan_one_extent`).
+ * `scan_extent_tiny`: An extent below 128K that was not the beginning or end of a file was scanned.  No action is currently taken for these--they are merely counted.
  * `scan_forward`: A logical byte range was scanned (`scan_forward`).
  * `scan_found`: An entry was found in the hash table matching a scanned block from the filesystem.
  * `scan_hash_hit`: A block was found on the filesystem corresponding to a block found in the hash table.
diff --git a/src/bees-context.cc b/src/bees-context.cc
index ff08863..fe1020d 100644
--- a/src/bees-context.cc
+++ b/src/bees-context.cc
@@ -292,6 +292,15 @@ BeesContext::scan_one_extent(const BeesFileRange &bfr, const Extent &e)
 	BEESTRACE("scan extent " << e);
 	BEESCOUNT(scan_extent);
 
+	// EXPERIMENT:  Don't bother with tiny extents unless they are the entire file.
+	// We'll take a tiny extent at BOF or EOF but not in between.
+	if (e.begin() && e.size() < 128 * 1024 && e.end() != Stat(bfr.fd()).st_size) {
+		BEESCOUNT(scan_extent_tiny);
+		// This doesn't work properly with the current architecture,
+		// so we don't do an early return here.
+		// return bfr;
+	}
+
 	// We keep moving this method around
 	auto m_ctx = shared_from_this();