diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 553e558..ce80a61 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ categories = ["network-programming", "data-structures"]
 
 [dependencies]
 byteorder = "1.0.0"
-iovec = "0.1"
+iovec = { git = "https://github.com/carllerche/iovec" }
 serde = { version = "1.0", optional = true }
 
 [dev-dependencies]
diff --git a/src/buf/buf.rs b/src/buf/buf.rs
index 42280e7..4871e68 100644
--- a/src/buf/buf.rs
+++ b/src/buf/buf.rs
@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ pub trait Buf {
     /// with `dst` being a zero length slice.
     ///
     /// [`writev`]: http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/readv.2.html
-    fn bytes_vec<'a>(&'a self, dst: &mut [&'a IoVec]) -> usize {
+    fn bytes_vec<'a>(&'a self, dst: &mut [IoVec<'a>]) -> usize {
         if dst.is_empty() {
             return 0;
         }
@@ -662,7 +662,7 @@ impl<'a, T: Buf + ?Sized> Buf for &'a mut T {
         (**self).bytes()
     }
 
-    fn bytes_vec<'b>(&'b self, dst: &mut [&'b IoVec]) -> usize {
+    fn bytes_vec<'b>(&'b self, dst: &mut [IoVec<'b>]) -> usize {
         (**self).bytes_vec(dst)
     }
 
@@ -680,7 +680,7 @@ impl<T: Buf + ?Sized> Buf for Box<T> {
         (**self).bytes()
     }
 
-    fn bytes_vec<'b>(&'b self, dst: &mut [&'b IoVec]) -> usize {
+    fn bytes_vec<'b>(&'b self, dst: &mut [IoVec<'b>]) -> usize {
         (**self).bytes_vec(dst)
     }
 
diff --git a/src/buf/buf_mut.rs b/src/buf/buf_mut.rs
index b03103a..72eb5cb 100644
--- a/src/buf/buf_mut.rs
+++ b/src/buf/buf_mut.rs
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 use super::{IntoBuf, Writer};
 use byteorder::ByteOrder;
-use iovec::IoVec;
+use iovec::IoVecMut;
 
 use std::{cmp, io, ptr, usize};
 
@@ -188,7 +188,7 @@ pub trait BufMut {
     /// with `dst` being a zero length slice.
     ///
     /// [`readv`]: http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/readv.2.html
-    unsafe fn bytes_vec_mut<'a>(&'a mut self, dst: &mut [&'a mut IoVec]) -> usize {
+    unsafe fn bytes_vec_mut<'a>(&'a mut self, dst: &mut [IoVecMut<'a>]) -> usize {
         if dst.is_empty() {
             return 0;
         }
@@ -645,7 +645,7 @@ impl<'a, T: BufMut + ?Sized> BufMut for &'a mut T {
         (**self).bytes_mut()
     }
 
-    unsafe fn bytes_vec_mut<'b>(&'b mut self, dst: &mut [&'b mut IoVec]) -> usize {
+    unsafe fn bytes_vec_mut<'b>(&'b mut self, dst: &mut [IoVecMut<'b>]) -> usize {
         (**self).bytes_vec_mut(dst)
     }
 
@@ -663,7 +663,7 @@ impl<T: BufMut + ?Sized> BufMut for Box<T> {
         (**self).bytes_mut()
     }
 
-    unsafe fn bytes_vec_mut<'b>(&'b mut self, dst: &mut [&'b mut IoVec]) -> usize {
+    unsafe fn bytes_vec_mut<'b>(&'b mut self, dst: &mut [IoVecMut<'b>]) -> usize {
         (**self).bytes_vec_mut(dst)
     }
 
diff --git a/src/buf/chain.rs b/src/buf/chain.rs
index 7dd44ab..76f1045 100644
--- a/src/buf/chain.rs
+++ b/src/buf/chain.rs
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 use {Buf, BufMut};
-use iovec::IoVec;
+use iovec::{IoVec, IoVecMut};
 
 /// A `Chain` sequences two buffers.
 ///
@@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ impl<T, U> Buf for Chain<T, U>
         self.b.advance(cnt);
     }
 
-    fn bytes_vec<'a>(&'a self, dst: &mut [&'a IoVec]) -> usize {
+    fn bytes_vec<'a>(&'a self, dst: &mut [IoVec<'a>]) -> usize {
         let mut n = self.a.bytes_vec(dst);
         n += self.b.bytes_vec(&mut dst[n..]);
         n
@@ -218,7 +218,7 @@ impl<T, U> BufMut for Chain<T, U>
         self.b.advance_mut(cnt);
     }
 
-    unsafe fn bytes_vec_mut<'a>(&'a mut self, dst: &mut [&'a mut IoVec]) -> usize {
+    unsafe fn bytes_vec_mut<'a>(&'a mut self, dst: &mut [IoVecMut<'a>]) -> usize {
         let mut n = self.a.bytes_vec_mut(dst);
         n += self.b.bytes_vec_mut(&mut dst[n..]);
         n
diff --git a/tests/test_buf.rs b/tests/test_buf.rs
index db51692..0243e25 100644
--- a/tests/test_buf.rs
+++ b/tests/test_buf.rs
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ fn test_bufs_vec() {
     let b1: &[u8] = &mut [0];
     let b2: &[u8] = &mut [0];
 
-    let mut dst: [&IoVec; 2] =
+    let mut dst: [IoVec; 2] =
         [b1.into(), b2.into()];
 
     assert_eq!(1, buf.bytes_vec(&mut dst[..]));
diff --git a/tests/test_buf_mut.rs b/tests/test_buf_mut.rs
index 896e31d..8b5e3db 100644
--- a/tests/test_buf_mut.rs
+++ b/tests/test_buf_mut.rs
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ extern crate byteorder;
 extern crate iovec;
 
 use bytes::{BufMut, BytesMut};
-use iovec::IoVec;
+use iovec::IoVecMut;
 use std::usize;
 use std::fmt::Write;
 
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ fn test_bufs_vec_mut() {
     let mut buf = BytesMut::from(&b"hello world"[..]);
 
     unsafe {
-        let mut dst: [&mut IoVec; 2] = mem::zeroed();
+        let mut dst: [IoVecMut; 2] = mem::zeroed();
         assert_eq!(1, buf.bytes_vec_mut(&mut dst[..]));
     }
 }
diff --git a/tests/test_chain.rs b/tests/test_chain.rs
index 2789e7c..049a8a2 100644
--- a/tests/test_chain.rs
+++ b/tests/test_chain.rs
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ fn vectored_read() {
         let b2: &[u8] = &mut [0];
         let b3: &[u8] = &mut [0];
         let b4: &[u8] = &mut [0];
-        let mut iovecs: [&IoVec; 4] =
+        let mut iovecs: [IoVec; 4] =
             [b1.into(), b2.into(), b3.into(), b4.into()];
 
         assert_eq!(2, buf.bytes_vec(&mut iovecs));
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ fn vectored_read() {
         let b2: &[u8] = &mut [0];
         let b3: &[u8] = &mut [0];
         let b4: &[u8] = &mut [0];
-        let mut iovecs: [&IoVec; 4] =
+        let mut iovecs: [IoVec; 4] =
             [b1.into(), b2.into(), b3.into(), b4.into()];
 
         assert_eq!(2, buf.bytes_vec(&mut iovecs));
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ fn vectored_read() {
         let b2: &[u8] = &mut [0];
         let b3: &[u8] = &mut [0];
         let b4: &[u8] = &mut [0];
-        let mut iovecs: [&IoVec; 4] =
+        let mut iovecs: [IoVec; 4] =
             [b1.into(), b2.into(), b3.into(), b4.into()];
 
         assert_eq!(1, buf.bytes_vec(&mut iovecs));
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ fn vectored_read() {
         let b2: &[u8] = &mut [0];
         let b3: &[u8] = &mut [0];
         let b4: &[u8] = &mut [0];
-        let mut iovecs: [&IoVec; 4] =
+        let mut iovecs: [IoVec; 4] =
             [b1.into(), b2.into(), b3.into(), b4.into()];
 
         assert_eq!(1, buf.bytes_vec(&mut iovecs));