On Wed, 26 Apr 2000 14:48:56 -0700, Bill Karwin wrote:

>It would be challenging to do so in the general case, because if there are
>many files with long pathnames, the list can easily fill up the header page.
>InterBase allocates more header pages as necessary to store all the
>filenames. The extra header pages are not necessarily contiguous.
>
>The system table RDB$FILES stores the paths of secondary files and shadow
>files, but this is read-only; changing these values _doesn't_ change where
>InterBase looks for the secondary files.

I think the path to solve this trouble is making RDB$FILES the target to
look for secondary files.
So, a simple update can do the work. And there no need to change
the ODS, this can remain as it is, since it's only a behavior change on
the server.
I think this will be simpler than going hunting high and low on the header pages .