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Joris Van den Bossche commented on ARROW-8059: ---------------------------------------------- Specifically for dask's usecase, it might also make sense for them to send just a string path to their workers, in case of a local file system. But in general, I think one would assume that it is deserialized on the same machine (so the path references the same file). > [Python] Make FileSystem objects serializable > --------------------------------------------- > > Key: ARROW-8059 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-8059 > Project: Apache Arrow > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: Python > Reporter: Joris Van den Bossche > Priority: Major > Fix For: 0.17.0 > > > It would be good to be able to pickle {{pyarrow.fs.FileSystem}} objects (eg > for use in dask.distributed) > cc [~apitrou] -- This message was sent by Atlassian Jira (v8.3.4#803005)