diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index 32a9bae..b6c272f 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -1,9 +1,6 @@
 [submodule "3rdparty/hpath"]
 	path = 3rdparty/hpath
 	url = https://github.com/hasufell/hpath.git
-[submodule "3rdparty/hinotify"]
-	path = 3rdparty/hinotify
-	url = https://github.com/hasufell/hinotify.git
 [submodule "3rdparty/simple-sendfile"]
 	path = 3rdparty/simple-sendfile
 	url = https://github.com/hasufell/simple-sendfile.git
diff --git a/3rdparty/hinotify b/3rdparty/hinotify
deleted file mode 160000
index 6751bf0..0000000
--- a/3rdparty/hinotify
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Subproject commit 6751bf0cc84ac8792d9636ede047ce567ef28469
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 4e492d9..48d284e 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -23,7 +23,6 @@ Installation
 ```
 git submodule update --init --recursive
 cabal sandbox init
-cabal sandbox add-source 3rdparty/hinotify
 cabal sandbox add-source 3rdparty/hpath
 cabal sandbox add-source 3rdparty/hpath/3rdparty/posix-paths
 cabal sandbox add-source 3rdparty/simple-sendfile
diff --git a/hsfm.cabal b/hsfm.cabal
index e9f6c8c..565f58e 100644
--- a/hsfm.cabal
+++ b/hsfm.cabal
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ library
                        containers,
                        data-default,
                        filepath >= 1.3.0.0,
-                       hinotify,
+                       hinotify-bytestring,
                        hpath,
                        mtl >= 2.2,
                        old-locale >= 1,