Using NEO 0.9.1 and partitioning enabled, I could reproduce the issue with
MariaDB 5.3.5, but not with MariaDB 5.3.12 and 5.5.23. I suppose it was fixed.

In testOudatedCellsOnDownStorage,
  'select count(*) from obj' returned a wrong value (always 1).

Strangely, 'select count(*) from test_neo0.obj' was always correct (102).