jorisvandenbossche commented on pull request #7073:
URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/7073#issuecomment-622354887
Do we need FileSystemDataset, maybe not. Is it still useful, IMO yes.
As mentioned above, I personally find it convenient to know that my dataset
has a single fo
jorisvandenbossche commented on pull request #7073:
URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/7073#issuecomment-622265852
From a user perspective, I find that also an added convenience. In Python,
the `FileSystemDataset.format` attribute let you check the format of your
dataset (instead of
jorisvandenbossche commented on pull request #7073:
URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/7073#issuecomment-621940060
> Fragments are not required to use the same
backing filesystem nor the same format.
Shouldn't we require that? That seems the goal of UnionDataset to combine