diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index 4bb068b79f4..88db71c0201 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -1,9 +1,6 @@
 [submodule "ceph-object-corpus"]
 	path = ceph-object-corpus
 	url = git://ceph.com/git/ceph-object-corpus.git
-[submodule "src/leveldb"]
-	path = src/leveldb
-	url = git://github.com/ceph/leveldb.git
 [submodule "src/libs3"]
 	path = src/libs3
 	url = git://github.com/ceph/libs3.git
diff --git a/src/leveldb b/src/leveldb
deleted file mode 160000
index c79c2701743..00000000000
--- a/src/leveldb
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Subproject commit c79c270174307411819ddfdd8c9b671ec4fb69c9