diff --git a/source3/lib/asys/asys.c b/source3/lib/asys/asys.c
deleted file mode 100644
index 594d47004ba..00000000000
--- a/source3/lib/asys/asys.c
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,342 +0,0 @@
-/*
- * Async syscalls
- * Copyright (C) Volker Lendecke 2012
- *
- * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
- * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
- * the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
- * (at your option) any later version.
- *
- * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
- * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
- * GNU General Public License for more details.
- *
- * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
- * along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
- */
-
-#include "asys.h"
-#include <stdlib.h>
-#include <errno.h>
-#include "../pthreadpool/pthreadpool_pipe.h"
-#include "lib/util/time.h"
-#include "smbprofile.h"
-
-struct asys_pwrite_args {
-	int fildes;
-	const void *buf;
-	size_t nbyte;
-	off_t offset;
-};
-
-struct asys_pread_args {
-	int fildes;
-	void *buf;
-	size_t nbyte;
-	off_t offset;
-};
-
-struct asys_fsync_args {
-	int fildes;
-};
-
-union asys_job_args {
-	struct asys_pwrite_args pwrite_args;
-	struct asys_pread_args pread_args;
-	struct asys_fsync_args fsync_args;
-};
-
-struct asys_job {
-	void *private_data;
-	union asys_job_args args;
-	ssize_t ret;
-	int err;
-	char busy;
-	char canceled;
-	struct timespec start_time;
-	struct timespec end_time;
-};
-
-struct asys_context {
-	struct pthreadpool_pipe *pool;
-	int pthreadpool_pipe_fd;
-
-	unsigned num_jobs;
-	struct asys_job **jobs;
-};
-
-struct asys_creds_context {
-	int dummy;
-};
-
-int asys_context_init(struct asys_context **pctx, unsigned max_parallel)
-{
-	struct asys_context *ctx;
-	int ret;
-
-	ctx = calloc(1, sizeof(struct asys_context));
-	if (ctx == NULL) {
-		return ENOMEM;
-	}
-	ret = pthreadpool_pipe_init(max_parallel, &ctx->pool);
-	if (ret != 0) {
-		free(ctx);
-		return ret;
-	}
-	ctx->pthreadpool_pipe_fd = pthreadpool_pipe_signal_fd(ctx->pool);
-
-	*pctx = ctx;
-	return 0;
-}
-
-int asys_signalfd(struct asys_context *ctx)
-{
-	return ctx->pthreadpool_pipe_fd;
-}
-
-int asys_context_destroy(struct asys_context *ctx)
-{
-	int ret;
-	unsigned i;
-
-	for (i=0; i<ctx->num_jobs; i++) {
-		if (ctx->jobs[i]->busy) {
-			return EBUSY;
-		}
-	}
-
-	ret = pthreadpool_pipe_destroy(ctx->pool);
-	if (ret != 0) {
-		return ret;
-	}
-	for (i=0; i<ctx->num_jobs; i++) {
-		free(ctx->jobs[i]);
-	}
-	free(ctx->jobs);
-	free(ctx);
-	return 0;
-}
-
-static int asys_new_job(struct asys_context *ctx, int *jobid,
-			struct asys_job **pjob)
-{
-	struct asys_job **tmp;
-	struct asys_job *job;
-	unsigned i;
-
-	for (i=0; i<ctx->num_jobs; i++) {
-		job = ctx->jobs[i];
-		if (!job->busy) {
-			job->err = 0;
-			*pjob = job;
-			*jobid = i;
-			return 0;
-		}
-	}
-
-	if (ctx->num_jobs+1 == 0) {
-		return EBUSY; 	/* overflow */
-	}
-
-	tmp = realloc(ctx->jobs, sizeof(struct asys_job *)*(ctx->num_jobs+1));
-	if (tmp == NULL) {
-		return ENOMEM;
-	}
-	ctx->jobs = tmp;
-
-	job = calloc(1, sizeof(struct asys_job));
-	if (job == NULL) {
-		return ENOMEM;
-	}
-	ctx->jobs[ctx->num_jobs] = job;
-
-	*jobid = ctx->num_jobs;
-	*pjob = job;
-	ctx->num_jobs += 1;
-	return 0;
-}
-
-static void asys_pwrite_do(void *private_data);
-
-int asys_pwrite(struct asys_context *ctx, int fildes, const void *buf,
-		size_t nbyte, off_t offset, void *private_data)
-{
-	struct asys_job *job;
-	struct asys_pwrite_args *args;
-	int jobid;
-	int ret;
-
-	ret = asys_new_job(ctx, &jobid, &job);
-	if (ret != 0) {
-		return ret;
-	}
-	job->private_data = private_data;
-
-	args = &job->args.pwrite_args;
-	args->fildes = fildes;
-	args->buf = buf;
-	args->nbyte = nbyte;
-	args->offset = offset;
-
-	ret = pthreadpool_pipe_add_job(ctx->pool, jobid, asys_pwrite_do, job);
-	if (ret != 0) {
-		return ret;
-	}
-	job->busy = 1;
-
-	return 0;
-}
-
-static void asys_pwrite_do(void *private_data)
-{
-	struct asys_job *job = (struct asys_job *)private_data;
-	struct asys_pwrite_args *args = &job->args.pwrite_args;
-
-	PROFILE_TIMESTAMP(&job->start_time);
-	job->ret = pwrite(args->fildes, args->buf, args->nbyte, args->offset);
-	PROFILE_TIMESTAMP(&job->end_time);
-
-	if (job->ret == -1) {
-		job->err = errno;
-	}
-}
-
-static void asys_pread_do(void *private_data);
-
-int asys_pread(struct asys_context *ctx, int fildes, void *buf,
-	       size_t nbyte, off_t offset, void *private_data)
-{
-	struct asys_job *job;
-	struct asys_pread_args *args;
-	int jobid;
-	int ret;
-
-	ret = asys_new_job(ctx, &jobid, &job);
-	if (ret != 0) {
-		return ret;
-	}
-	job->private_data = private_data;
-
-	args = &job->args.pread_args;
-	args->fildes = fildes;
-	args->buf = buf;
-	args->nbyte = nbyte;
-	args->offset = offset;
-
-	ret = pthreadpool_pipe_add_job(ctx->pool, jobid, asys_pread_do, job);
-	if (ret != 0) {
-		return ret;
-	}
-	job->busy = 1;
-
-	return 0;
-}
-
-static void asys_pread_do(void *private_data)
-{
-	struct asys_job *job = (struct asys_job *)private_data;
-	struct asys_pread_args *args = &job->args.pread_args;
-
-	PROFILE_TIMESTAMP(&job->start_time);
-	job->ret = pread(args->fildes, args->buf, args->nbyte, args->offset);
-	PROFILE_TIMESTAMP(&job->end_time);
-
-	if (job->ret == -1) {
-		job->err = errno;
-	}
-}
-
-static void asys_fsync_do(void *private_data);
-
-int asys_fsync(struct asys_context *ctx, int fildes, void *private_data)
-{
-	struct asys_job *job;
-	struct asys_fsync_args *args;
-	int jobid;
-	int ret;
-
-	ret = asys_new_job(ctx, &jobid, &job);
-	if (ret != 0) {
-		return ret;
-	}
-	job->private_data = private_data;
-
-	args = &job->args.fsync_args;
-	args->fildes = fildes;
-
-	ret = pthreadpool_pipe_add_job(ctx->pool, jobid, asys_fsync_do, job);
-	if (ret != 0) {
-		return ret;
-	}
-	job->busy = 1;
-
-	return 0;
-}
-
-static void asys_fsync_do(void *private_data)
-{
-	struct asys_job *job = (struct asys_job *)private_data;
-	struct asys_fsync_args *args = &job->args.fsync_args;
-
-	PROFILE_TIMESTAMP(&job->start_time);
-	job->ret = fsync(args->fildes);
-	PROFILE_TIMESTAMP(&job->end_time);
-
-	if (job->ret == -1) {
-		job->err = errno;
-	}
-}
-
-void asys_cancel(struct asys_context *ctx, void *private_data)
-{
-	unsigned i;
-
-	for (i=0; i<ctx->num_jobs; i++) {
-		struct asys_job *job = ctx->jobs[i];
-
-		if (job->private_data == private_data) {
-			job->canceled = 1;
-		}
-	}
-}
-
-int asys_results(struct asys_context *ctx, struct asys_result *results,
-		 unsigned num_results)
-{
-	int jobids[num_results];
-	int i, ret;
-
-	ret = pthreadpool_pipe_finished_jobs(ctx->pool, jobids, num_results);
-	if (ret <= 0) {
-		return ret;
-	}
-
-	for (i=0; i<ret; i++) {
-		struct asys_result *result = &results[i];
-		struct asys_job *job;
-		int jobid;
-
-		jobid = jobids[i];
-
-		if ((jobid < 0) || (jobid >= ctx->num_jobs)) {
-			return -EIO;
-		}
-
-		job = ctx->jobs[jobid];
-
-		if (job->canceled) {
-			result->ret = -1;
-			result->err = ECANCELED;
-		} else {
-			result->ret = job->ret;
-			result->err = job->err;
-		}
-		result->private_data = job->private_data;
-		result->duration = nsec_time_diff(&job->end_time, &job->start_time);
-
-		job->busy = 0;
-	}
-
-	return ret;
-}
diff --git a/source3/lib/asys/asys.h b/source3/lib/asys/asys.h
deleted file mode 100644
index f576bd32781..00000000000
--- a/source3/lib/asys/asys.h
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,155 +0,0 @@
-/*
- * Async syscalls
- * Copyright (C) Volker Lendecke 2012
- *
- * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
- * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
- * the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
- * (at your option) any later version.
- *
- * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
- * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
- * GNU General Public License for more details.
- *
- * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
- * along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
- */
-
-#ifndef __ASYS_H__
-#define __ASYS_H__
-
-#include "replace.h"
-#include "system/filesys.h"
-
-/**
- * @defgroup asys The async syscall library
- *
- * This module contains a set of asynchronous functions that directly
- * wrap normally synchronous posix system calls. The reason for this
- * module's existence is the limited set of operations the posix async
- * I/O API provides.
- *
- * The basic flow of operations is:
- *
- * The application creates a asys_context structure using
- * asys_context_create()
- *
- * The application triggers a call to the library by calling for
- * example asys_ftruncate(). asys_ftruncate() takes a private_data
- * argument that will be returned later by asys_result. The calling
- * application should hand a pointer representing the async operation
- * to the private_data argument.
- *
- * The application puts the fd returned by asys_signalfd() into its
- * event loop. When the signal fd becomes readable, the application
- * calls asys_result() to grab the final result of one of the system
- * calls that were issued in the meantime.
- *
- * For multi-user applications it is necessary to create different
- * credential contexts, as it is not clear when exactly the real
- * system call will be issued. The application might have called
- * seteuid(2) or something equivalent in the meantime. Thus, all
- * system calls doing access checks, in particular all calls doing
- * path-based operations, require a struct auth_creds_context
- * parameter. asys_creds_context_create() creates such a context. All
- * credential-checking operations take a struct asys_creds_context as
- * an argument. It can be NULL if the application never changes
- * credentials.
- *
- * @{
- */
-
-struct asys_context;
-struct asys_creds_context;
-
-enum asys_log_level {
-	ASYS_LOG_FATAL = 0,
-	ASYS_DEBUG_ERROR,
-	ASYS_DEBUG_WARNING,
-	ASYS_DEBUG_TRACE
-};
-
-#ifndef PRINTF_ATTRIBUTE
-#if (__GNUC__ >= 3)
-/** Use gcc attribute to check printf fns.  a1 is the 1-based index of
- * the parameter containing the format, and a2 the index of the first
- * argument. Note that some gcc 2.x versions don't handle this
- * properly **/
-#define PRINTF_ATTRIBUTE(a1, a2) __attribute__ ((format (__printf__, a1, a2)))
-#else
-#define PRINTF_ATTRIBUTE(a1, a2)
-#endif
-#endif
-
-typedef void (*asys_log_fn)(struct asys_context *ctx, void *private_data,
-			    enum asys_log_level level,
-			    const char *fmt, ...) PRINTF_ATTRIBUTE(4, 5);
-
-int asys_context_init(struct asys_context **ctx, unsigned max_parallel);
-int asys_context_destroy(struct asys_context *ctx);
-void asys_set_log_fn(struct asys_context *ctx, asys_log_fn fn,
-		     void *private_data);
-
-/**
- * @brief Get the the signal fd
- *
- * asys_signalfd() returns a file descriptor that will become readable
- * whenever an asynchronous request has finished. When the signalfd is
- * readable, calling asys_result() will not block.
- *
- * @param[in]	ctx	The asys context
- * @return		A file descriptor indicating a finished operation
- */
-
-int asys_signalfd(struct asys_context *ctx);
-
-struct asys_result {
-	ssize_t ret;
-	int err;
-	void *private_data;
-	uint64_t duration;	/* nanoseconds */
-};
-
-/**
- * @brief Pull the results from async operations
- *
- * Whe the fd returned from asys_signalfd() is readable, one or more async
- * operations have finished. The result from the async operations can be pulled
- * with asys_results().
- *
- * @param[in]	ctx	    The asys context
- * @param[out]  results     The result strutcts
- * @param[in]   num_results The length of the results array
- * @return		    success: >=0, number of finished jobs
- *                          failure: -errno
- */
-int asys_results(struct asys_context *ctx, struct asys_result *results,
-		 unsigned num_results);
-
-void asys_cancel(struct asys_context *ctx, void *private_data);
-
-int asys_pread(struct asys_context *ctx, int fildes, void *buf, size_t nbyte,
-	       off_t offset, void *private_data);
-int asys_pwrite(struct asys_context *ctx, int fildes, const void *buf,
-		size_t nbyte, off_t offset, void *private_data);
-int asys_ftruncate(struct asys_context *ctx, int filedes, off_t length,
-		   void *private_data);
-int asys_fsync(struct asys_context *ctx, int fd, void *private_data);
-int asys_close(struct asys_context *ctx, int fd, void *private_data);
-
-struct asys_creds_context *asys_creds_context_create(
-	struct asys_context *ctx,
-	uid_t uid, gid_t gid, unsigned num_gids, gid_t *gids);
-
-int asys_creds_context_delete(struct asys_creds_context *ctx);
-
-int asys_open(struct asys_context *ctx, struct asys_creds_context *cctx,
-	      const char *pathname, int flags, mode_t mode,
-	      void *private_data);
-int asys_unlink(struct asys_context *ctx, struct asys_creds_context *cctx,
-		const char *pathname, void *private_data);
-
-/* @} */
-
-#endif /* __ASYS_H__ */
diff --git a/source3/lib/asys/tests.c b/source3/lib/asys/tests.c
deleted file mode 100644
index e54e3ea2d22..00000000000
--- a/source3/lib/asys/tests.c
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,90 +0,0 @@
-/*
- * Test async syscalls
- * Copyright (C) Volker Lendecke 2012
- *
- * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
- * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
- * the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
- * (at your option) any later version.
- *
- * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
- * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
- * GNU General Public License for more details.
- *
- * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
- * along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
- */
-
-#include "asys.h"
-#include <stdio.h>
-#include <string.h>
-#include <stdlib.h>
-#include <errno.h>
-
-int main(int argc, const char *argv[])
-{
-	struct asys_context *ctx;
-	int i, fd, ret;
-
-	int *buf;
-
-	int ntasks = 10;
-
-	ret = asys_context_init(&ctx, 0);
-	if (ret != 0) {
-		perror("asys_context_create failed");
-		return 1;
-	}
-
-	fd = open("asys_testfile", O_CREAT|O_RDWR, 0644);
-	if (fd == -1) {
-		perror("open failed");
-		return 1;
-	}
-
-	buf = calloc(ntasks, sizeof(int));
-	if (buf == NULL) {
-		perror("calloc failed");
-		return 1;
-	}
-
-	for (i=0; i<ntasks; i++) {
-		buf[i] = i;
-	}
-
-	for (i=0; i<ntasks; i++) {
-		ret = asys_pwrite(ctx, fd, &buf[i], sizeof(int),
-				  i * sizeof(int), &buf[i]);
-		if (ret != 0) {
-			errno = ret;
-			perror("asys_pwrite failed");
-			return 1;
-		}
-	}
-
-	for (i=0; i<ntasks; i++) {
-		struct asys_result result;
-		int *pidx;
-
-		ret = asys_results(ctx, &result, 1);
-		if (ret < 0) {
-			errno = -ret;
-			perror("asys_result failed");
-			return 1;
-		}
-		pidx = (int *)result.private_data;
-
-		printf("%d returned %d\n", *pidx, (int)result.ret);
-	}
-
-	ret = asys_context_destroy(ctx);
-	if (ret != 0) {
-		perror("asys_context_delete failed");
-		return 1;
-	}
-
-	free(buf);
-
-	return 0;
-}
diff --git a/source3/lib/asys/wscript_build b/source3/lib/asys/wscript_build
deleted file mode 100644
index 520994ff2bb..00000000000
--- a/source3/lib/asys/wscript_build
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env python
-
-bld.SAMBA3_SUBSYSTEM('LIBASYS',
-		     source='asys.c',
-		     deps='PTHREADPOOL samba-util')
-
-bld.SAMBA3_BINARY('asystest',
-		  source='tests.c',
-		  deps='LIBASYS',
-                  install=False)
diff --git a/source3/wscript_build b/source3/wscript_build
index 1d6f0434d09..69b73719fbd 100755
--- a/source3/wscript_build
+++ b/source3/wscript_build
@@ -629,7 +629,6 @@ bld.SAMBA3_LIBRARY('smbd_base',
                    RPC_SERVICE
                    NDR_SMBXSRV
                    LEASES_DB
-                   LIBASYS
                    sysquotas
                    NDR_SMB_ACL
                    netapi
@@ -1513,7 +1512,6 @@ bld.SAMBA3_BINARY('spotlight2sparql',
 bld.RECURSE('auth')
 bld.RECURSE('libgpo/gpext')
 bld.RECURSE('lib/pthreadpool')
-bld.RECURSE('lib/asys')
 bld.RECURSE('lib/unix_msg')
 bld.RECURSE('librpc')
 bld.RECURSE('librpc/idl')