diff --git a/weed-fs/src/pkg/store/needle.go b/weed-fs/src/pkg/store/needle.go
deleted file mode 100644
index 7f1f51d90..000000000
--- a/weed-fs/src/pkg/store/needle.go
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,67 +0,0 @@
-package store
-
-import (
-    "io"
-	"io/ioutil"
-	"http"
-	"log"
-	"strconv"
-	"strings"
-)
-
-type Needle struct{
-  Cookie uint8 "random number to mitigate brute force lookups"
-  Key uint64 "file id"
-  AlternateKey uint32 "supplemental id"
-  Size uint32 "Data size"
-  Data []byte "The actual file data"
-  Checksum int32 "CRC32 to check integrity"
-  Padding []byte "Aligned to 8 bytes"
-}
-func NewNeedle(r *http.Request)(n *Needle){
-  n = new(Needle)
-  form,fe:=r.MultipartReader()
-  if fe!=nil {
-    log.Fatalf("MultipartReader [ERROR] %s\n", fe)
-  }
-  part,_:=form.NextPart()
-  data,_:=ioutil.ReadAll(part)
-  n.Data = data
-
-  n.ParsePath(r.URL.Path[1:strings.LastIndex(r.URL.Path,".")])
-
-  return
-}
-func (n *Needle) ParsePath(path string){
-  a := strings.Split(path,"_")
-  log.Println("cookie",a[0],"key",a[1],"altKey",a[2])
-  cookie,_ := strconv.Atoi(a[0])
-  n.Cookie = uint8(cookie)
-  n.Key,_ = strconv.Atoui64(a[1])
-  altKey,_ := strconv.Atoui64(a[2])
-  n.AlternateKey = uint32(altKey)
-}
-func (n *Needle) Append(w io.Writer){
-  header := make([]byte,17)
-  header[0] = n.Cookie
-  uint64toBytes(header[1:9],n.Key)
-  uint32toBytes(header[9:13],n.AlternateKey)
-  n.Size = uint32(len(n.Data))
-  uint32toBytes(header[13:17],n.Size)
-  w.Write(header)
-  w.Write(n.Data)
-  rest := 8-((n.Size+17+4)%8)
-  uint32toBytes(header[0:4],uint32(n.Checksum))
-  w.Write(header[0:rest+4])
-}
-func (n *Needle) Read(r io.Reader, size uint32){
-  bytes := make([]byte,size+17+4)
-  r.Read(bytes)
-  n.Cookie = bytes[0]
-  n.Key = bytesToUint64(bytes[1:9])
-  n.AlternateKey = bytesToUint32(bytes[9:13])
-  n.Size = bytesToUint32(bytes[13:17])
-  n.Data = bytes[17:17+size]
-  n.Checksum = int32(bytesToUint32(bytes[17+size:17+size+4]))
-}
-
diff --git a/weed-fs/src/pkg/store/needle_map.go b/weed-fs/src/pkg/store/needle_map.go
deleted file mode 100644
index df50dfb0e..000000000
--- a/weed-fs/src/pkg/store/needle_map.go
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,53 +0,0 @@
-package store
-
-import (
-    "os"
-)
-
-type NeedleKey struct{
-  Key uint64 "file id"
-  AlternateKey uint32 "supplemental id"
-}
-func (k *NeedleKey) String() string {
-  var tmp [12]byte
-  for i :=uint(0);i<8;i++{
-    tmp[i] = byte(k.Key >> (8*i));
-  }
-  for i :=uint(0);i<4;i++{
-    tmp[i+8] = byte(k.AlternateKey >> (8*i));
-  }
-  return string(tmp[:])
-}
-
-type NeedleValue struct{
-  Offset uint32 "Volume offset" //since aligned to 8 bytes, range is 4G*8=32G
-  Size uint32 "Size of the data portion"
-}
-
-type NeedleMap struct{
-  m map[string]*NeedleValue //mapping NeedleKey(Key,AlternateKey) to NeedleValue
-}
-func NewNeedleMap() (nm *NeedleMap){
-  nm = new(NeedleMap)
-  nm.m = make(map[string]*NeedleValue)
-  return
-}
-func (nm *NeedleMap) load(file *os.File){
-}
-func makeKey(key uint64, altKey uint32) string {
-  var tmp [12]byte
-  for i :=uint(0);i<8;i++{
-    tmp[i] = byte(key >> (8*i));
-  }
-  for i :=uint(0);i<4;i++{
-    tmp[i+8] = byte(altKey >> (8*i));
-  }
-  return string(tmp[:])
-}
-func (nm *NeedleMap) put(key uint64, altKey uint32, offset uint32, size uint32){
-  nm.m[makeKey(key,altKey)] = &NeedleValue{Offset:offset, Size:size}
-}
-func (nm *NeedleMap) get(key uint64, altKey uint32) (element *NeedleValue, ok bool){
-  element, ok = nm.m[makeKey(key,altKey)]
-  return
-}
diff --git a/weed-fs/src/pkg/store/store.go b/weed-fs/src/pkg/store/store.go
deleted file mode 100644
index 191dbdb24..000000000
--- a/weed-fs/src/pkg/store/store.go
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,69 +0,0 @@
-package store
-
-import (
-	"log"
-	"io/ioutil"
-	"json"
-	"strings"
-	"strconv"
-	"url"
-)
-
-type Store struct {
-	volumes      map[uint64]*Volume
-	dir          string
-	Server       string
-	PublicServer string
-}
-type VolumeStat struct {
-	Id     uint64 "id"
-	Status int    "status" //0:read, 1:write
-}
-
-func NewStore(server, publicServer, dirname string) (s *Store) {
-	s = new(Store)
-	s.Server, s.PublicServer, s.dir = server, publicServer, dirname
-	s.volumes = make(map[uint64]*Volume)
-
-	counter := uint64(0)
-	files, _ := ioutil.ReadDir(dirname)
-	for _, f := range files {
-		if f.IsDirectory() || !strings.HasSuffix(f.Name, ".dat") {
-			continue
-		}
-		id, err := strconv.Atoui64(f.Name[:-4])
-		if err == nil {
-			continue
-		}
-		s.volumes[counter] = NewVolume(s.dir, id)
-		counter++
-	}
-	log.Println("Store started on dir:", dirname, "with", counter, "existing volumes")
-	return
-}
-
-func (s *Store) Join(mserver string) {
-	stats := make([]*VolumeStat, len(s.volumes))
-	for k, _ := range s.volumes {
-		s := new(VolumeStat)
-		s.Id, s.Status = k, 1
-		stats = append(stats, s)
-	}
-	bytes, _ := json.Marshal(stats)
-	values := make(url.Values)
-	values.Add("server", s.Server)
-    values.Add("publicServer", s.PublicServer)
-	values.Add("volumes", string(bytes))
-	post("http://"+mserver+"/dir/join", values)
-}
-func (s *Store) Close() {
-	for _, v := range s.volumes {
-		v.Close()
-	}
-}
-func (s *Store) Write(i uint64, n *Needle) {
-	s.volumes[i].write(n)
-}
-func (s *Store) Read(i uint64, n *Needle) {
-	s.volumes[i].read(n)
-}
diff --git a/weed-fs/src/pkg/store/util.go b/weed-fs/src/pkg/store/util.go
deleted file mode 100644
index 41b129683..000000000
--- a/weed-fs/src/pkg/store/util.go
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,50 +0,0 @@
-package store
-
-import (
-    "http"
-    "io/ioutil"
-    "url"
-    "log"
-)
-
-func bytesToUint64(b []byte)(v uint64){
-  for i :=uint(7);i>0;i-- {
-    v += uint64(b[i])
-    v <<= 8
-  }
-  v+=uint64(b[0])
-  return
-}
-func bytesToUint32(b []byte)(v uint32){
-  for i :=uint(3);i>0;i-- {
-    v += uint32(b[i])
-    v <<= 8
-  }
-  v+=uint32(b[0])
-  return
-}
-func uint64toBytes(b []byte, v uint64){
-  for i :=uint(0);i<8;i++ {
-    b[i] = byte(v>>(i*8))
-  }
-}
-func uint32toBytes(b []byte, v uint32){
-  for i :=uint(0);i<4;i++ {
-    b[i] = byte(v>>(i*8))
-  }
-}
-
-func post(url string, values url.Values)string{
-    r, err := http.PostForm(url, values)
-    if err != nil {
-        log.Println("post:", err)
-        return ""
-    }
-    defer r.Body.Close()
-    b, err := ioutil.ReadAll(r.Body)
-    if err != nil {
-        log.Println("post:", err)
-        return ""
-    }
-    return string(b)
-}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/weed-fs/src/pkg/store/volume.go b/weed-fs/src/pkg/store/volume.go
deleted file mode 100644
index c32f4af10..000000000
--- a/weed-fs/src/pkg/store/volume.go
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,66 +0,0 @@
-package store
-
-import (
-	"os"
-	"path"
-	"strconv"
-	"log"
-)
-
-type Volume struct {
-	Id                  uint64
-	dir                 string
-	dataFile, indexFile *os.File
-	nm                  *NeedleMap
-
-	accessChannel chan int
-}
-
-func NewVolume(dirname string, id uint64) (v *Volume) {
-	var e os.Error
-	v = new(Volume)
-	v.dir = dirname
-	v.Id = id
-	fileName := strconv.Uitoa64(v.Id)
-	log.Println("file", v.dir, "/", fileName)
-	v.dataFile, e = os.OpenFile(path.Join(v.dir,fileName+".dat"), os.O_RDWR|os.O_CREATE, 0644)
-	if e != nil {
-		log.Fatalf("New Volume [ERROR] %s\n", e)
-	}
-	v.indexFile, e = os.OpenFile(path.Join(v.dir,fileName+".idx"), os.O_RDWR|os.O_CREATE, 0644)
-	if e != nil {
-		log.Fatalf("New Volume [ERROR] %s\n", e)
-	}
-	v.nm = NewNeedleMap()
-	v.nm.load(v.indexFile)
-
-	v.accessChannel = make(chan int, 1)
-	v.accessChannel <- 0
-
-	return
-}
-func (v *Volume) Close() {
-	close(v.accessChannel)
-	v.dataFile.Close()
-	v.indexFile.Close()
-}
-
-func (v *Volume) write(n *Needle) {
-	counter := <-v.accessChannel
-	offset, _ := v.dataFile.Seek(0, 2)
-	n.Append(v.dataFile)
-	nv, ok := v.nm.get(n.Key, n.AlternateKey)
-	if !ok || int64(nv.Offset)*8 < offset {
-		v.nm.put(n.Key, n.AlternateKey, uint32(offset/8), n.Size)
-	}
-	v.accessChannel <- counter + 1
-}
-func (v *Volume) read(n *Needle) {
-	counter := <-v.accessChannel
-	nv, ok := v.nm.get(n.Key, n.AlternateKey)
-	if ok && nv.Offset > 0 {
-		v.dataFile.Seek(int64(nv.Offset)*8, 0)
-		n.Read(v.dataFile, nv.Size)
-	}
-	v.accessChannel <- counter + 1
-}