One disadvantage of 1 is your database will grow and your searches will
become slower.
LDAP isn't really the place for archival data, if you want to preserve
it export the LDIF for the user and archive that.
Exporting each "deleted" user to a seperate LDIF file will make the
server faster for regular searches, but it will be much slower if I want
to check if a new username has ever been used (something which I want to
avoid).
But if I understand correct, the search can be restricted to a certain
subtree. So if I would archive in a different subtree, the frequent,
regular searches will stay fast. And the not so frequent searches for
all usernames that have ever been issued will be a bit slower, because
it will also incorporate the archive subtree. But that archive subtree
should still be much faster to query then hundreds of files, because
they all live in a single file (or maybe just a few, depending on the db
backend I guess).
Any thoughts on this?
Isaac
