diff --git a/datafusion/core/src/datasource/physical_plan/file_stream.rs b/datafusion/core/src/datasource/physical_plan/file_stream.rs
index 6f354b31ae878..b3b02c919f154 100644
--- a/datafusion/core/src/datasource/physical_plan/file_stream.rs
+++ b/datafusion/core/src/datasource/physical_plan/file_stream.rs
@@ -21,7 +21,6 @@
 //! Note: Most traits here need to be marked `Sync + Send` to be
 //! compliant with the `SendableRecordBatchStream` trait.
 
-use std::collections::VecDeque;
 use std::mem;
 use std::pin::Pin;
 use std::task::{Context, Poll};
@@ -38,12 +37,15 @@ use crate::physical_plan::RecordBatchStream;
 use arrow::datatypes::SchemaRef;
 use arrow::error::ArrowError;
 use arrow::record_batch::RecordBatch;
+use chrono::TimeZone;
 use datafusion_common::instant::Instant;
 use datafusion_common::ScalarValue;
 
 use futures::future::BoxFuture;
 use futures::stream::BoxStream;
 use futures::{ready, FutureExt, Stream, StreamExt};
+use object_store::path::Path;
+use object_store::ObjectMeta;
 
 /// A fallible future that resolves to a stream of [`RecordBatch`]
 pub type FileOpenFuture =
@@ -76,7 +78,8 @@ pub trait FileOpener: Unpin {
 /// A stream that iterates record batch by record batch, file over file.
 pub struct FileStream<F: FileOpener> {
     /// An iterator over input files.
-    file_iter: VecDeque<PartitionedFile>,
+    files: Vec<PartitionedFile>,
+    cur_file_idx: usize,
     /// The stream schema (file schema including partition columns and after
     /// projection).
     projected_schema: SchemaRef,
@@ -263,7 +266,8 @@ impl<F: FileOpener> FileStream<F> {
         let files = config.file_groups[partition].clone();
 
         Ok(Self {
-            file_iter: files.into(),
+            files,
+            cur_file_idx: 0,
             projected_schema,
             remain: config.limit,
             file_opener,
@@ -289,18 +293,36 @@ impl<F: FileOpener> FileStream<F> {
     /// Since file opening is mostly IO (and may involve a
     /// bunch of sequential IO), it can be parallelized with decoding.
     fn start_next_file(&mut self) -> Option<Result<(FileOpenFuture, Vec<ScalarValue>)>> {
-        let part_file = self.file_iter.pop_front()?;
+        if self.cur_file_idx == self.files.len() {
+            return None;
+        }
+
+        let part_file = &mut self.files[self.cur_file_idx];
+        self.cur_file_idx += 1;
+
+        let object_meta = mem::replace(
+            &mut part_file.object_meta,
+            ObjectMeta {
+                location: Path::default(),
+                last_modified: chrono::Utc.timestamp_nanos(0),
+                size: 0,
+                e_tag: None,
+                version: None,
+            },
+        );
+
+        let partition_values = mem::take(&mut part_file.partition_values);
 
         let file_meta = FileMeta {
-            object_meta: part_file.object_meta,
-            range: part_file.range,
-            extensions: part_file.extensions,
+            object_meta,
+            range: part_file.range.clone(),
+            extensions: part_file.extensions.clone(),
         };
 
         Some(
             self.file_opener
                 .open(file_meta)
-                .map(|future| (future, part_file.partition_values)),
+                .map(|future| (future, partition_values)),
         )
     }