Man page says: --compress <algorithm>[-<lvl>] Compression algorithm and compression level to use when storing new data. algorithm may be any of lzma, bzip2, zlib, or none. lvl may be any integer from 0 (fastest) to 9 (slowest). Default: lzma-6 lzma and zlib values both work for me. But if I try bzip2 there's error message. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: $ mount.s3ql --compress bzip2 swift://auth.selcdn.ru/gems /mnt/sel_gems Actual Results: usage: mount.s3ql-python3.3 [-h] [--log <target>] [--cachedir <path>] [--authfile <path>] [--debug <module>] [--quiet] [--no-ssl] [--ssl-ca-path path] [--version] [--cachesize <size>] [--max-cache-entries <num>] [--allow-other] [--allow-root] [--fg] [--single] [--upstart] [--profile] [--compress <algorithm>[-<lvl>]] [--metadata-upload-interval <seconds>] [--threads <no>] [--nfs] <storage-url> <mountpoint> mount.s3ql-python3.3: error: argument --compress: bzip2 is not a valid --compress value I noticed that if there's some unsupported value instead of 'bzip2' (say, 'foobar'), the message is a bit different: mount.s3ql-python3.3: error: argument --compress: Invalid compression algorithm: foobar The command with 'bzip2' worked before with previous version of s3ql. 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s3ql bumped to 2.4 now, the problem is still there.
(In reply to Pavel Volkov from comment #1) > s3ql bumped to 2.4 now, the problem is still there. Report this upstream.
Now that I actually glanced at the code it's pretty obvious what's wrong. :) The newer versions add the regex '^([a-z]+)(?:-([0-9]))?$' when parsing the compress arguments which won't match bzip2 because it won't match the '2' digit. I'll add a comment on the upstream issue.
A fix has been merged upstream and will be in the next release.