The external storage is not a good soluction for the toolserver.

I use a little bloody hack to get all content :

ini_set('user_agent', 'TOOLSERVER');
$replag=file_get_contents(" http://tools.wikimedia.de/~interiot/cgi-bin/replag?raw");

$result1=mysql_query("select t.old_text,t.old_flags
from ".$fields[1]."wiki_p.text as t,".$fields[1]."wiki_p.page as p,".$fields[1]."wiki_p.revision as r
where p.page_title='".utf8_encode($fields[4])."'
and p.page_namespace=0
and p.page_is_redirect=0
and p.page_latest=r.rev_id
and r.rev_text_id=t.old_id",$db);
if ($result1 == false) die("failed");
$fields1 = mysql_fetch_row($result1);

if (preg_match('/external/',$fields1[1]) or preg_match('/object/',$fields1[1]) or strlen($fields1[1])==0 or $replag>=300){
$text1=file_get_contents("http://".$fields[1].".wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=".$fields[4]."&action=raw");
}
else {
$text1=gzinflate($fields1[0]);
}

Ok . That works .. but is not very fast .... and produce load to the wiki-server ..

But i cant find a better solution.

Greeting Flacus/Flabot