At 10:45 AM 10/19/2004, ben_ata wrote:

>An interesting usage for this would be to e.g. distribute the entries
>by index position.

If you're suggesting clustered indexes, check the archives. Clustered
indexes have lots of problems - overflow, underfilling - that Firebird
avoids.

>Then spread the files over different disks thus
>reducing disk access for paralell access.

I think you don't understand how Firebird uses indexes.