@@ -28,6 +28,12 @@ func TestEmptyLayer(t *testing.T) {

 		t.Fatal("expected zero diffsize for empty layer")

 	}

+	meta, err := EmptyLayer.Metadata()

+

+	if len(meta) != 0 || err != nil {

+		t.Fatal("expected zero length metadata for empty layer")

+	}

+

 	tarStream, err := EmptyLayer.TarStream()

 	if err != nil {

 		t.Fatalf("error streaming tar for empty layer: %v", err)