Fanout Dataset is a great mechanism, but it could consume huge temporary disk space. Similar to the 'Input is Ordered by Group' option for Group By setting in transformers, it might be better if Fanout Dataset (writers and FeatureWriter) could have 'Input is Ordered by Fanout Expression' option so that the processing could be more efficiently in some cases.
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