diff --git a/ippl/src/Utility/IpplInfo.cpp b/ippl/src/Utility/IpplInfo.cpp
index d119f5db6b9d21cf05bbc815b26c845d1156b4a1..ef8a75f02a41cc691ac32bb23e2deb826aa15f90 100644
--- a/ippl/src/Utility/IpplInfo.cpp
+++ b/ippl/src/Utility/IpplInfo.cpp
@@ -130,7 +130,6 @@ int  IpplInfo::ChunkSize = 512*1024; // 512K == 64K doubles
 bool IpplInfo::PerSMPParallelIO = false;
 bool IpplInfo::offsetStorage = false;
 bool IpplInfo::extraCompressChecks = false;
-bool IpplInfo::useDirectIO = false;
 
 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
 // print out current state to the given output stream
@@ -160,10 +159,6 @@ std::ostream& operator<<(std::ostream& o, const IpplInfo&) {
     o << "  Retransmit messages on error (only if checkums on)? ";
     o << IpplInfo::retransmit() << "\n";
 
-#ifdef IPPL_DIRECTIO
-    o << "  Use Direct-IO? " << IpplInfo::useDirectIO << "\n";
-#endif
-
     o << "  Elapsed wall-clock time (in seconds): ";
     o << IpplInfo::Stats->getTime().clock_time() << "\n";
     o << "  Elapsed CPU-clock time (in seconds) : ";