diff --git a/vortex/Cargo.toml b/vortex/Cargo.toml
index adaca75632c..75fe5501199 100644
--- a/vortex/Cargo.toml
+++ b/vortex/Cargo.toml
@@ -71,9 +71,14 @@ vortex-tensor = { workspace = true }
 default = ["files", "zstd"]
 files = ["dep:vortex-file"]
 memmap2 = ["vortex-buffer/memmap2"]
-object_store = ["vortex-file/object_store", "vortex-io/object_store"]
-tokio = ["vortex-file/tokio"]
-zstd = ["dep:vortex-zstd", "vortex-file/zstd"]
+object_store = ["vortex-file?/object_store", "vortex-io/object_store"]
+tokio = [
+    "vortex-error/tokio",
+    "vortex-file?/tokio",
+    "vortex-io/tokio",
+    "vortex-layout/tokio",
+]
+zstd = ["dep:vortex-zstd", "vortex-file?/zstd"]
 pretty = ["vortex-array/table-display"]
 serde = ["vortex-array/serde", "vortex-buffer/serde", "vortex-mask/serde"]
 # This feature enabled unstable encodings for which we don't guarantee stability.
diff --git a/vortex/examples/tracing_vortex.rs b/vortex/examples/tracing_vortex.rs
index f1227e2e017..c3876f89e20 100644
--- a/vortex/examples/tracing_vortex.rs
+++ b/vortex/examples/tracing_vortex.rs
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 //! This example demonstrates a real-world use case: implementing a `tracing` subscriber
 //! that writes all log events and spans to Vortex files.
 //!
-//! Run with: cargo run --example tracing_vortex --features tokio
+//! Run with: cargo run --example tracing_vortex --features files,tokio
 
 #![expect(
     clippy::disallowed_types,