diff --git a/mercurial/store.py b/mercurial/store.py
--- a/mercurial/store.py
+++ b/mercurial/store.py
@@ -1093,12 +1093,13 @@ class _fncachevfs(vfsmod.proxyvfs):
         ):
             # do not trigger a fncache load when adding a file that already is
             # known to exist.
-            notload = self.fncache.entries is None and self.vfs.exists(encoded)
-            if notload and b'r+' in mode and not self.vfs.stat(encoded).st_size:
-                # when appending to an existing file, if the file has size zero,
-                # it should be considered as missing. Such zero-size files are
-                # the result of truncation when a transaction is aborted.
-                notload = False
+            notload = self.fncache.entries is None and (
+                # if the file has size zero, it should be considered as missing.
+                # Such zero-size files are the result of truncation when a
+                # transaction is aborted.
+                self.vfs.exists(encoded)
+                and self.vfs.stat(encoded).st_size
+            )
             if not notload:
                 self.fncache.add(path)
         return self.vfs(encoded, mode, *args, **kw)
diff --git a/tests/test-transaction-rollback-on-revlog-split.t b/tests/test-transaction-rollback-on-revlog-split.t
--- a/tests/test-transaction-rollback-on-revlog-split.t
+++ b/tests/test-transaction-rollback-on-revlog-split.t
@@ -425,14 +425,6 @@ The split was rollback
   .hg/store/data/file.d: size=267307
   .hg/store/data/file.i: size=320
   $ hg verify -q
-   warning: revlog 'data/1234567890/1234567890/1234567890/1234567890/1234567890/1234567890/1234567890/1234567890/1234567890/1234567890/f.d' not in fncache!
-   warning: revlog 'data/Directory_With,Special%Char/Complex_File.babar.d' not in fncache!
-   warning: revlog 'data/file.d' not in fncache!
-   warning: revlog 'data/foo/bar/babar_celeste/foo.d' not in fncache!
-   warning: revlog 'data/some_dir/sub_dir/foo_bar.d' not in fncache!
-   warning: revlog 'data/some_dir/sub_dir/foo_bar.i.s/tutu.d' not in fncache!
-  6 warnings encountered!
-  hint: run "hg debugrebuildfncache" to recover from corrupt fncache
 
   $ cd ..