Running JBossAS 5.0.1GA. It is an exploded war. The jsp files comes from a publishing system and are between 200 - 400K. The server has the capacity to run 4-6 nodes. I don't want to replicate the files on the file system for each node. I would like to keep just one copy of the deployed files. My other option is to deploy the WAR to each node and create a symbolic link in each node to the deployed content So in each <JB_HOME>/server/node[1-4]/deploy/ROOT.war I create a symbolic link to a folder containing 400,000 files. "jaikiran" wrote : Which exact version of JBossAS? And when you say the number of files is large, do you mean the number of files in the WAR? And so you are worried that all these files will be copied to the tmp folder on individual nodes? And hence going for exploded deployment? View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4250179#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...