As far as I can guess, the "metadata-only" flag should be set only in spanned SWM sets where one ore more SWM units contain only (WIM) metadatas, while the file contents are stored in subsequent units. A WIM without any file contents (both main un-named $DATA or named NTFS streams) would be a non-sense...
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As far as I can guess, the "metadata-only" flag should be set only in spanned SWM sets where one ore more SWM units contain only (WIM) metadatas, while the file contents are stored in subsequent units. A WIM without any file contents (both main un-named $DATA or named NTFS streams) would be a non-sense...