1. A method performed by one or more processors executing instructions stored on a computer-readable storage medium, the method comprising: receiving a turn-durability-off setting for an attribute of a resource managed by a directory, interacting with an administrator via a front-end interface to the directory that selectively provides the turn-durability-off setting for one of several attributes assigned to the resource where the other attributes of the resource lack the turn-durability-off setting and therefore include durability processing when processed by a directory database for other directory transactions; updating a listing to assign the turn-durability-off setting to the attribute; subsequently detecting a directory transaction that alters the attribute; and passing the directory transaction to the directory database for processing and instructing the directory database to process the directory transaction without flushing the directory transaction from memory to storage in response to the turn-durability-off setting included in the listing.