>busybox refuses to play nicely with
>
>tar -cf test -T /dev/null
>or
>tar -cf test /dev/null
>
>so is there any other way to get there?

As with all unixen there's always another way!
Once upon a time tar files were simple enough
that you could concatenate them.  Perhaps that
is no longer true?  You could experiment, then
compress the cat result later.

An alternative:

find . | tar zcfT outfile /proc/self/fd/0

-- Jim

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