LvAlnczfs> Personally I won’t connect directly over a high latency
LvAlnczfs> connection. You risk inconsistent updates and corruption.

You are wrong. You cannot corrupted database because you are using a
connection over a high latency network. The same applies for
inconsistent updates (that's why transaction control exists).

Btw, FB 3 has a much better protocol performance in such networks, as
seem in my published test results:
http://www.firebirdnews.org/testing-the-firebird-3-protocol-enhancements/

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