diff --git a/src/osdc/Blinker.h b/src/osdc/Blinker.h
deleted file mode 100644
index 48526c69b7a..00000000000
--- a/src/osdc/Blinker.h
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,92 +0,0 @@
-// -*- mode:C++; tab-width:8; c-basic-offset:2; indent-tabs-mode:t -*- 
-// vim: ts=8 sw=2 smarttab
-/*
- * Ceph - scalable distributed file system
- *
- * Copyright (C) 2004-2006 Sage Weil <sage@newdream.net>
- *
- * This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
- * modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
- * License version 2.1, as published by the Free Software 
- * Foundation.  See file COPYING.
- * 
- */
-
-#ifndef CEPH_BLINKER_H
-#define CEPH_BLINKER_H
-
-class Blinker {
-
- public:
-
-  class Op {
-    int op;
-    static const int LOOKUP = 1;
-    static const int INSERT = 2;
-    static const int REMOVE = 3;
-    static const int CLEAR = 4;
-    Op(int o) : op(o) {}
-  };
-  
-  class OpLookup : public Op {
-  public:
-    bufferptr key;
-    OpLookup(bufferptr& k) : Op(Op::LOOKUP), key(k) {}
-  };
-
-  class OpInsert : public Op {
-    bufferptr key;
-    bufferlist val;
-    OpInsert(bufferptr& k, bufferlist& v) : Op(Op::INSERT), key(k), val(v) {}
-  };
-
-  class OpRemove : public Op {
-  public:
-    bufferptr key;
-    OpRemove(bufferptr& k) : Op(Op::REMOVE), key(k) {}
-  };
-
-  class OpClear : public Op {
-  public:
-    OpClear() : Op(Op::CLEAR) {}
-  };
-
-
-
-private:
-  Objecter *objecter;
-
-  // in-flight operations.
-
-
-  // cache information about tree structure.
-  
-
-
-public:
-  // public interface
-
-  // simple accessors
-  void lookup(inode_t& inode, bufferptr& key, bufferlist *pval, Context *onfinish);
-
-  // simple modifiers
-  void insert(inode_t& inode, bufferptr& key, bufferlist& val, Context *onack, Context *onsafe);
-  void remove(inode_t& inode, bufferptr& key, Context *onack, Context *onsafe);
-  void clear(inode_t& inode, Context *onack, Context *onsafe);
-
-  // these are dangerous: the table may be large.
-  void listkeys(inode_t& inode, list<bufferptr>* pkeys, Context *onfinish);
-  void listvals(inode_t& inode, list<bufferptr>* pkeys, list<bufferlist>* pvals, Context *onfinish);
-
-  // fetch *at least* key, but also anything else that is convenient. 
-  // include lexical bounds for which this is a complete result.
-  //  (if *start and *end are empty, it's the entire table)
-  void prefetch(inode_t& inode, bufferptr& key, 
-		list<bufferptr>* pkeys, list<bufferlist>* pvals, 
-		bufferptr *start, bufferptr *end,
-		Context *onfinish);
-
-  
-};
-
-#endif
diff --git a/src/osdc/Makefile.am b/src/osdc/Makefile.am
index 3a8a2165aaa..3ba446b0e46 100644
--- a/src/osdc/Makefile.am
+++ b/src/osdc/Makefile.am
@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@ libosdc_la_SOURCES = \
 noinst_LTLIBRARIES += libosdc.la
 
 noinst_HEADERS += \
-	osdc/Blinker.h \
 	osdc/Filer.h \
 	osdc/Journaler.h \
 	osdc/ObjectCacher.h \