diff --git a/storage-proofs-porep/Cargo.toml b/storage-proofs-porep/Cargo.toml
index 794b3522b1..f78e2c4557 100644
--- a/storage-proofs-porep/Cargo.toml
+++ b/storage-proofs-porep/Cargo.toml
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ storage-proofs-core = { path = "../storage-proofs-core", version = "~12.0.0", de
 sha2raw = { path = "../sha2raw", version = "~7.0.0"}
 filecoin-hashers = { path = "../filecoin-hashers", version = "~7.0.0", default-features = false, features = ["poseidon", "sha256"]}
 merkletree = "0.22.0"
-mapr = "0.8.0"
+memmap2 = "0.5.6"
 num-bigint = "0.4.3"
 num-traits = "0.2"
 rayon = "1.0.0"
diff --git a/storage-proofs-porep/src/stacked/vanilla/cache.rs b/storage-proofs-porep/src/stacked/vanilla/cache.rs
index dc3ec6ce67..6c9c0e0304 100644
--- a/storage-proofs-porep/src/stacked/vanilla/cache.rs
+++ b/storage-proofs-porep/src/stacked/vanilla/cache.rs
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ use byteorder::{ByteOrder, LittleEndian};
 use filecoin_hashers::Hasher;
 use lazy_static::lazy_static;
 use log::{info, trace};
-use mapr::{Mmap, MmapOptions};
+use memmap2::{Mmap, MmapOptions};
 use rayon::prelude::{IndexedParallelIterator, ParallelIterator, ParallelSliceMut};
 use serde::{Deserialize, Serialize};
 use sha2::{Digest, Sha256};
diff --git a/storage-proofs-porep/src/stacked/vanilla/create_label/multi.rs b/storage-proofs-porep/src/stacked/vanilla/create_label/multi.rs
index e3a9ca38ec..e662a838dc 100644
--- a/storage-proofs-porep/src/stacked/vanilla/create_label/multi.rs
+++ b/storage-proofs-porep/src/stacked/vanilla/create_label/multi.rs
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ use generic_array::{
     GenericArray,
 };
 use log::{debug, info};
-use mapr::MmapMut;
+use memmap2::MmapMut;
 use merkletree::store::{DiskStore, Store, StoreConfig};
 use storage_proofs_core::{
     cache_key::CacheKey,
diff --git a/storage-proofs-porep/src/stacked/vanilla/memory_handling.rs b/storage-proofs-porep/src/stacked/vanilla/memory_handling.rs
index 5d3b1d0e63..8180f2f961 100644
--- a/storage-proofs-porep/src/stacked/vanilla/memory_handling.rs
+++ b/storage-proofs-porep/src/stacked/vanilla/memory_handling.rs
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ use std::sync::atomic::{AtomicU64, AtomicUsize, Ordering};
 use anyhow::Result;
 use byte_slice_cast::{AsSliceOf, FromByteSlice};
 use log::{info, warn};
-use mapr::{Mmap, MmapMut, MmapOptions};
+use memmap2::{Mmap, MmapMut, MmapOptions};
 
 pub struct CacheReader<T> {
     file: File,
@@ -192,8 +192,7 @@ impl<T: FromByteSlice> CacheReader<T> {
             MmapOptions::new()
                 .offset(offset)
                 .len(len)
-                .private()
-                .map(file)
+                .map_copy_read_only(file)
                 .map_err(|e| e.into())
         }
     }
@@ -278,19 +277,16 @@ impl<T: FromByteSlice> CacheReader<T> {
 fn allocate_layer(sector_size: usize) -> Result<MmapMut> {
     match MmapOptions::new()
         .len(sector_size)
-        .private()
-        .clone()
-        .lock()
         .map_anon()
         .and_then(|mut layer| {
-            layer.mlock()?;
+            layer.lock()?;
             Ok(layer)
         }) {
         Ok(layer) => Ok(layer),
         Err(err) => {
             // fallback to not locked if permissions are not available
             warn!("failed to lock map {:?}, falling back", err);
-            let layer = MmapOptions::new().len(sector_size).private().map_anon()?;
+            let layer = MmapOptions::new().len(sector_size).map_anon()?;
             Ok(layer)
         }
     }