C:\cache\stats is not a shared drive. But, I was contemplating going that route as we are planning on deploying this to unix systems with a shared NFS filesystem. It seems that the first process in the cluster creates the je.lck file to signify it is the writer process. And every other node that starts up afterwards throws this error due to that lock file being present. I might have misconfigured the CacheLoaderConfig, is this configuration allowable though? thanks in advance, ray View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4106477#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...